throats
Because it is a word with a single syllable, throats is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofthroats
- The front part of the neck.
Example: "The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat."
- The gullet or windpipe.
Example: "As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat."
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
Example: "The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle."
- Station throat.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The inside of a timber knee.
- The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- To utter in or with the throat.
Example: "to throat threats"
- To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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