THROAT

Definitions

1. 1. The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
2. 2. Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. I can vent clamor from my throat. Shak.
3. 3. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
4. 4. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.
5. 5. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
6. 6. That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
7. 7. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. Totten.
8. 8. The inside of a timber knee.
9. 9. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. Throat brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.