throat

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.”

Station throat.

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.

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

To utter in or with the throat.

“to throat threats”

To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.