throatbollt (throtbol)

[ 2. The pa age from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs. (a) The swallow or gullet; technically, the fauces, pharynx, and esophagus. And the i duellen alle we ye in Roches or in Mountaynes; and the i han alle wey the Throte open, of whens the i droppen Venym alle weys. Mandeville, Travels, p. 290. (b) The air-pa age in the throat; the windpipe; technically, the larynx and trachea: as, to form musical notes in the throat. I'll have you preferred to be a crier; you have an excellent throat for 't. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, iii. 1. The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 1. 151. 3. Something resembling or analogous to the human throat. (a) In entom., the gula, or posterior part bot., the mouth or orifice of a gamopetalous corolla or calyx, of the lower side of the head, behind the mentum. (b) In IMG:content-0340.png:[blocks in formation] being or sometimes the circular manifest line at transition which the between tube and the limb two. unite, mouth or entrance of something; a pa ageway into or through. Calm and intrepid in the very throat Of sulphurous war. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 937. 5 10 6 3 4 IMG:content-0341.png:[ocr errors] (d) Naut.: (1) The central part of the hollow of a breast hook or knee. (2) The inner end of a gaff, where it widens and hollows in to fit the mast. See cut under gaff. (3) The inner part of the arms of an anchor, where they join the shank. (4) The upper front corner of a four-sided fore-and-aft sail. (e) In ship - building, the middle part of a floor-timber. (f) In building, the part of a chimney, usually contracted, between the fireplace proper and the gathering. (g) The narrowed entrance to the neck of a puddling-furnace, where the area of flue-pa age is regulated. See cut under puddling - furnace. (h) In plate - gla manuf., the front door of the annealing-arch. (i) The entranceway in a threshing-machine, where the grain in the straw pa es from the feed-board to the cylinder. (j) The opening in a plane-stock through which the shavings pa upward. ( k ) That part of the spoke of a wheel which lies beyond the swell at the junc tion of the hub. E. H. Knight. (1) In fort., same as gorge; also, the smaller or inside opening of an em Section of Fireplace. 1, slab; 2, hearth; 3, jamb; 4, fireplace: 5, mantelpiece; 6, throat; 7, gathering; 8, funnel; 9, flue; 10, mantel; 11, back; 12, grate; 13, breast; 14, damper. By the throte bolle he caughte Aleyn. Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 353. throat-bolt (thrōt'bōlt), n. Naut ., an eye-bolt fixed in the lower part of tops and the jaw-end of gaffs, for hooking the throat-halyards to. throat-brail (thrōt'bral), n . Naut . , a brail reeving through a block at the jaws of a gaff for tricing the body of a fore-and-aft sail close up to the gaff as well as the mast. See cut under brail .