Throat
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.
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Throat Quotations
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
Ann Landers
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
Arthur Miller
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Nikki Sixx
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock
Throat Translations
throat in Afrikaans is keel
throat in Danish is strube
throat in Dutch is strot, keelgat, keel
throat in French is gorge
throat in German is Gurgel, Kehle, Rachen
throat in Hungarian is torok
throat in Latin is gutter
throat in Norwegian is strupe
throat in Portuguese is garganta
throat in Spanish is garganta
throat in Swedish is strupe, hals, svalg
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