1. throat - Noun
2. throat - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPoetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Antonin Artaud
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
Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat. African Zulu Proverb
‘My belly thinks my throat is cut,' as the hungry man said. Irish Proverb
The flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre. Italian Proverb