hatch vs throat

hatch

noun
  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine 

  • A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time. 

  • A trapdoor. 

  • An opening into, or in search of, a mine. 

  • The act of hatching. 

  • A gullet. 

  • A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper). 

  • A floodgate; a sluice gate. 

  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. 

  • Development; disclosure; discovery. 

  • A bedstead. 

  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance. 

  • A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 

  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. 

  • The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. 

verb
  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). 

  • To devise. 

  • To emerge from an egg. 

  • To break open when a young animal emerges from it. 

  • To close with a hatch or hatches. 

  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. 

throat

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. 

verb
  • To utter in or with the throat. 

  • to throat threats 

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

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