hawk vs throat

hawk

verb
  • To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly. 

  • To hunt with a hawk. 

  • To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. 

  • To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. 

  • To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat. 

noun
  • A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard. 

  • A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat. 

  • An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. 

  • A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. 

  • An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game. 

  • Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon. 

  • Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia. 

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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