throat

IPA: θrˈoʊt

The front part of the neck.
The gullet or windpipe.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
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.
(rail transport) Short for station throat. [(rail transport) The often constricted area at the end of a railway station where running lines divide into platform tracks.]

(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.

Examples of "throat" in Sentences

The lump in your throat is as pro forma as the popcorn.
Help Lady “O” the frog in my throat is trying to escape!
The one where she slits her throat is the one i would have went with.
Any fish that escapes with a treble hook in the throat is a dead fish.
* Mum came through operation fine, her throat is a bit ragged, but all in all she's doing well.
"There's a lot of mucous to cough up, and your throat is a little sore from putting the tube down in it," Mr. Anderson says.
The throat, exposed as it is to unwholesome and overheated air, irritating dust of the street, factories, and workshops, is often inflamed, resulting in that common ailment, _sore throat_.
They are likewise bloody; for their throat is an open sepulchre, cruel as the grave, gaping to devour and to swallow up, insatiable as the grave, which never says, It is enough, Prov. xxx.
There are a number of contributing causes to throat stiffness, but the principal cause is _throat consciousness_ and misplaced effort, due largely to current misconceptions regarding the voice.