throat vs wattle

throat

noun
  • The front part of the neck. 

  • A narrow opening in a vessel. 

  • 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.) 

wattle

noun
  • Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person. 

  • A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. 

  • A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat. 

  • A barbel of a fish. 

  • This plant seen as the national emblem of Australia. 

  • Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning. 

  • A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards. 

  • A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof. 

verb
  • To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles. 

  • To bind with wattles or twigs. 

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