A Throat

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.
3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Synonyms

• (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus(British)
• (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
• (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

Antonyms

• (end of a gaff next to the mast): peak