throat

Etymology

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 Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.

noun

1. The front part of the neck.
   The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
   Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price
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.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
   By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place. 1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 332
   This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form. 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis
6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
   The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor 1868, “Glover's Safety Anchors”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine
9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

verb

1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
   He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky. 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17
   As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ... 1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31
   Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated. 2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia
   to throat threats
2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
   The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises. 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy
   His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth. 2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.