Definitions
the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
Word origin
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Used in a sentence
“The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.”
“The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.”
“As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Neck passage”6 letters
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