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   Throat

   /THrōt/

   

   noun

   • 1. the passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal: "her throat was parched with thirst"
   • ▪ the front part of a person's or animal's neck, behind which the esophagus, trachea, and blood vessels serving the head are situated: "a gold pendant gleamed at her throat"
   • ▪ a voice of a person or a songbird: "from a hundred throats came the cry “Vive l'Empereur!”"
   • ▪ a thing compared to a throat, especially a narrow passage, entrance, or exit.
   • ▪ the forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.

   Word Origin Old Englishthrote, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel. Compare with throttle.

   Derivatives

   • 1. throated adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

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