Throat
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
(2): ( n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(3): ( n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
(4): ( n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
(5): ( n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
(6): ( n.) The inside of a timber knee.
(7): ( n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
(8): ( n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
(9): ( v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
(10): ( n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; - sometimes restricted to the fauces.
(11): ( n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
King James Dictionary [2]
Throat, n.
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, To mow beans in a direction against their bending. Local.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Psalm 5:9 (a) The picture is that of an open grave from which a terrible stench arises. The filthy talk that comes from many mouths is certainly offensive to every decent person. (See Romans 3:13).
Proverbs 23:2 (b) It represents the appetite or the desire to eat which should be controlled. The Lord does not want us to be gluttons.
