thrapple

British  

/ ˈθræpəl /

noun

1. the throat or windpipe

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verb

1. to throttle

Etymology

Origin of thrapple

C18: a variant of earlier thropple, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Auld Orthodoxy lang did grapple, But now she’s got an unco ripple; Haste, gie her name up i’ the chapel, Nigh unto death; See, how she fetches at the thrapple, An’ gasps for breath.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Yusuf’s dead and buried the noo; and if I were farther beyant the grip of them that kenned him, my thrapple would feel all the sounder!’

From A Modern Telemachus by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson

Ay, yer sang's the sang o' an angel For a sinfu' thrapple no meet, Like the pipes til a heavenly braingel Whaur they dance their herts intil their feet!

From Heather and Snow by MacDonald, George

He desarve to hev it, or suthin’ else, round his thrapple ’stead o’ his leg.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne