Definition of "throat" in English

noun

1. The front part of the neck.

   • The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

2. The gullet or windpipe.

   • As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

   • The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

4. (rail transport) Short for station throat

5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.

8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.

10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

verb

1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.

   • to throat threats

2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.