throat

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Droß (“throat”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

throat (plural throats)

  1. The front part of the neck.
    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
  4. station throat

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Translations [edit]

front part of the neck
gullet or windpipe
narrow opening in a vessel
station throat — see station throat
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Verb [edit]

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

  1. (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
    to throat threats
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

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