throat

Definitions

• The front part of the neck.
• The gullet or windpipe.
• A narrow opening in a vessel.
• station Station throat.
• 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.