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What does throat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word throat? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. 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 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. (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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