a. [f. THROAT sb. or v. + -ED.] Having or furnished with a throat; having a throat of a specified kind (chiefly in combination), as deep-, dry-, large-, red-, white-throated.
1530. Palsgr., 327/2. Throted, gorgé.
1601. ? Marston, Pasquil & Kath., I. 76. Yon same drie throated huskes Will sucke you vp.
1746. Francis, trans. Hor., Sat., II. ii. 53. Give me, the Harpy-throated Glutton cries, In a large Dish a Mullet’s mighty Size.
1850. Beck’s Florist, Dec., 292. One of the best of the white-throated kinds [of Petunias].
1880. W. Watson, Prince’s Quest (1892), 102. Sooth-tongued singers, throated like the bird.
b. Building. Having a throat or groove; fluted, channelled, grooved.
1847. Smeaton, Builder’s Man., 189. Bath proper sunk and throated sills.
