throat

IPA: θrˈoʊt

The front part of the neck.
The gullet or windpipe.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
Station throat.
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
(nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
(nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
(shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
(botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

(now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
(informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

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