noun the inside of a timber knee.
2. throat ·noun that end of a gaff which is next the mast.
3. throat ·vt to mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
4. throat ·noun the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
5. throat ·noun the upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
6. throat ·noun the part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
7. throat ·vt to utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
8. throat ·noun a contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
9. throat ·noun the orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
10. throat ·noun hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx;
sometimes restricted to the fauces.
11. throat ·noun the part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.