throat

1. (noun) The front part of the neck. 2. (noun) The gullet or windpipe. 3. (noun) A narrow opening in a vessel. 4. (noun) Station throat. 5. (noun) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. 6. (noun) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. 7. (noun) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast. 8. (noun) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. 9. (noun) The inside of a timber knee. 10. (noun) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. 11. (verb) To utter in or with the throat. 12. (verb) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.) 13. (verb) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.