throat

Sentences

Meaning

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.
3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
9. The inside of a timber knee.
10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Adam’s apple

roof of mouth

trickling water

respiratory tract

front of neck

critical section

language

dog-hole

drip mold

laryngopharynx

filler opening

larmier

filling opening

critical cross-section

choking section

hollow throat

filler box

drip channel

weeping pipe

trickle tube

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈθɹəʊt/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with German

Cognate with Icelandic

Cognate with Swedish

In summary

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.

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