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throating, vbl. n.|ˈθrəʊtɪŋ|
[f. throat v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb throat. †a. Farming (local). (See quots.) Obs.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husb. V. i. 68 (E.D.S.) When they mow beans against their bending, they [in the Vale of Aylesbury] call it throating. 1763Museum Rust. (ed. 2) I. 236 It is only when they chance to have a thin crop, that they venture to mow them against their own bending (this they call throating).
b. Building, etc. The cutting of a ‘throat’ or channel; the undercutting of a projecting moulding in order to prevent rain water from trickling down the wall; concr. the channel or groove thus cut: = throat n. 6 a (d).
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 543 In measuring strings, the weathering is denominated sunk work, and the grooving throatings. 1838F. W. Simms Public Wks. Gt. Brit. 9 The coping shall [have] a throating of half an inch wide cut on its underside. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 160 Wood-lock, a piece of elm..in the throating or score of the pintle. 1898Speaker 26 Feb. 264/1 Masses of greyish white—almost like a faint throating of snow.
c. Shipbuilding. The throat of a floor-timber.
1869E. J. Reed Shipbuild. ii. 28 Keep its upper edge level with the throating of the floors.
d. attrib.: throating-knife, a knife used for cutting the throats of fish; throating-line = cutting-down line (cutting vbl. n. 9 b); throating-machine, a machine for shaping the throats of wheel spokes (Cent. Dict., Suppl. 1909).
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 197 Cod splitting, ripping and throating knives. |