Etymology From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, 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)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
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:
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KANG: When I take this ship, I'll have Kirk's head stuffed and hung on his cabin wall. // MARA: They will kill us before we can act. // KANG: No, they wish to question us, learn our strength, our plans. They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience. Vigilance. They will make a mistake. Capture of the Enterprise will give us knowledge to end this war quickly.1969, Jerome Bixby, Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove”, Culver City, Calif.: Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television, published 1969:
The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer:
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The gullet or windpipe.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
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A narrow opening in a vessel.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
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:
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Nautical, Transport The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
Nautical, Transport 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 anchor1868, “Glover's Safety Anchors”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
Etymology From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, 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)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
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:
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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, →ISBN:
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So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood[1611?], Homer, “Book XIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
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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, →ISBN:
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UK, Dialectal, Obsolete To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.