The throat; the jaws.

Originally: the throat or gullet. In later use also: the rumen or first and largest stomach of a ruminant. Obsolete.

The œsophagus or gullet.

Throat.

The passage leading from the back of the oral and nasal cavities to the oesophagus and trachea; the pharynx. Also: the upper part of the trachea…

The throat.

The internal throat. Now only rhetorical.

The part of the digestive tract located between the pharynx and the stomach (in most vertebrates, a muscular tube lined with stratified squamous…

The oesophagus.

= oesophagus, n.

The passage through which food and drink are swallowed; the throat, pharynx, or gullet, or these collectively; the gorge.

The neck. Cf. channel, n.1 9 kennel, n.3

The throat, gullet. Obsolete.

The neck; the throat. Cf. cannel, n.2 3 cannel-bone, n. channel-bone, n. Obsolete.

The throat, gullet.

The gullet. Obsolete.

The throat or gullet.

Some of the earlier anatomists (following, ultimately, Galen) attempted to restore to the word its original Greek sense of œsophagus or gullet, and…

slang. The throat; chiefly in the lane, the narrow, red lane, etc.

= senses 1–3 above.

The throat. Now chiefly colloquial or regional.

the oesophagus.

The gullet.

The throat; used rarely in technical applications. Also attributive, in †guttur-neck.

transferred and figurative. The stomach or maw; also the throat. Now Scottish and dialect. Cf. gizzard, n.

The gullet; transferred appetite for food.

The gullet.

the throat, gullet.

the throat, perceived as the route by which food enters the stomach; esp. in down the red lane.

The gullet.

colloquial. The throat or gullet; esp. in to get (also pour, put) (something) down one's neck: to drink (esp. alcoholic drink); (also…

= sense 1.

Any part of the alimentary canal; spec. the pharynx and oesophagus. Cf. airway, n. 1b.