beak vs throat

beak

verb
  • Seize with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

throat

verb
  • To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.) 

  • To utter in or with the throat. 

  • to throat threats 

noun
  • A narrow opening in a vessel. 

  • The front part of the neck. 

  • Station throat. 

  • The inside of a timber knee. 

  • 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 part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. 

  • The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. 

  • The gullet or windpipe. 

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