Throat
Bible Usage:
- throat used 7 times.
- First Reference: Psalms 5:9
- Last Reference: Romans 3:13
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
THROAT, noun
1. The anterior part of the neck of an animal, in which are the gullet and windpipe, or the passages for the food and breath.
In medicine, the fauces; all that hollow or cavity which may be seen when the mouth is wide open.
2. In seamen's language, that end of a gaff which is next the mast.
3. In ship-building, the inside of the knee-timber at the middle or turns of the arms; also, the inner part of the arms of an anchor where they join the shank; and the middle part of a floor-timber.
THROAT-brails, brails attached to the gaff, close to the mast.
THROAT-halliards, are those that raise the throat of the gaff.
THROAT, verb transitive To mow beans in a direction against their bending. [Local.]
THROAT-PIPE, noun [throat and pipe.] The windpipe or weasand.
THROAT-WORT, noun [throat and wort.] A plant of the genus Campanula, a perennial weed common in pasture-ground; also, a plant of the genus Trachelium.
THROATY, adjective Guttural.