ˈthroater local.
A throating-knife: see throating vbl. n. d; also, a man who uses this knife in cutting off the heads of fishes.
| 1846 Knickerbocker XXVII. 511 The ‘throater’, the ‘header’, the ‘splitter’ take stations at the speedily-erected table. 1891 Cent. Dict. cites from New Brunswick. |