noun

• (rail transport) Short for station throat
• (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
• (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
• (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  "The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor"

verb

• (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
  "He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky."
• (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  "The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises."
• (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.