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

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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

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 Robert Burns

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 The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

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

The strap o' the bushbie was roond his thrapple, an' was juist aboot stranglin' him, when I cut it wi' the ham knife.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

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