What is the meaning of throat?

Answer 1

The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column., Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces., A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase., The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue., The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail., That end of a gaff which is next the mast., The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank., The inside of a timber knee., The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces., To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats., To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.