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

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thrapple

With him was McNeilage, his mate, his face red and shining like a well-fed minister, and the drink to his thrapple.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

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 Elizabeth Wilson Grierson

Auld Orthodoxy lang did grapple, For every hole to get a stapple; But now she fetches at the thrapple, An' fights for breath; Haste, gie her name up in the chapel,^2 Near unto death.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

All this is accurately true   And, faith! there might be more said; But—well, to save your thrapple you     Fled, as aforesaid.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

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 Charlotte Mary Yonge