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throat
throat is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses
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- 1noun
The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
- 2noun
Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.
- 3noun
A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
- 4noun
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- 5noun
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- 6noun
That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
- 7noun
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- 8noun
The inside of a timber knee.
- 9noun
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- 10transitive verb
To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
- 11transitive verb
To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
- 12noun
the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
- 13noun
a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
"the throat of the vase"
"the throat of a chimney"
- 14noun
an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
- 15noun
the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
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