Shak.
2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the
throat of a pitcher or vase.
3. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of
the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.
4. (Naut.) (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a
staysail. (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (c) The angle
where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. Totten.