thrapple

/ ˈθræpəl /

noun

1. the throat or windpipe

verb

1. to throttle

Word History and Origins

Origin of thrapple¹

C18: a variant of earlier thropple, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Alas, that this fair province of Massachusetts Bay should lie a-gasping amid plenty, with the hand of Britain upon the country's thrapple to choke out the life God gave it.

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But, luckily, he remembered the goose's thrapple, and he pulled it out of his pocket and whistled through it.

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Man, it seeps doon through your thrapple into your lungs, an' there's nae hoastin' o' it up.

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I knew it war not likely I shed ever be diskivered now, since my ole ’ooman hedn’t made her appearance sooner; an’ as to any boat stoppin’ for my hail, thet trick I hed tried till I war a’most broken-winded—leastwise I hed kep’ hollerin’ every hour day arter day till my thrapple war as sore as a blister.

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The old lot are as bitter agin you now as they war that day when they had ye stannin’ under a branch, wi’ the noose half tightened round your thrapple; and ef ye hadn’t got out o’ thar clutches, why, then thar’d a been an end o’t.

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