Meaning of गला in English
- The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.
- The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.
- of Strangle
- Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
- Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
- The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
- Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.
- A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
- The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The inside of a timber knee.
- The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
- To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
- Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.
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