[f. THROAT sb.]
† 1. trans. To utter or articulate in or from one’s throat; to speak in a guttural tone; to throat out, to cry out or shout from the throat. Obs.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 135. So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 113. Throating it out, wheresoever he comes,… ‘I am an Alguazil.’
† 2. To cut the throat of; to slaughter, slay. Obs. rare. (Cf. also THROATING-knife.)
1382. Wyclif, 2 Kings x. 14. Whom when thei hadden taken alyve, the throtyden [1388 strangliden, Vulg. jugulaverunt, LXX ἔσφαξαν] hem in the cystern, besyde the chaumbre.
† b. Farming (local). See quot. Obs.
1750. [implied in THROATING vbl. sb.].
1763. Museum Rust. (ed. 2), I. 236. Mons. de L’Isle’s workman cuts the wheat against the bending, or, as an Aylesbury-vale man would say, throats it.
3. Building. To furnish with a throat; to groove or channel. (Chiefly in pa. pple. and vbl. sb.)
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 311. [The fascia] is fluted or throated on its upper edge, to prevent the water from running over the ashlaring.
1876. Encycl. Brit., IV. 473/2. Sills are weathered and throated like the parts of a string course.
1881. Young, Ev. Man his own Mechanic, § 1299. A dash-board … may be made out of a solid piece sloped at the top … and ‘throated’ or channelled on the under surface with a deep groove.
1883. Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railw., 5. Ashlar Copings … no stone is to be less than 2 feet 6 inches in length, and the whole are to be weathered and throated.
