throat
/ˈθɹoʊt/ noun B2- The front part of the neck. · The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
- The gullet or windpipe. · As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
- A narrow opening in a vessel. · The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The inside of a timber knee.
Plural throats
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Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered.
“In a little time, had I stayed, I should have walked down his throat.”
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
He requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it should injure his throat.
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