troat
Britishverb
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Origin of troat
C17: probably related to Old French trout, trut , a cry used by hunters to urge on the dogs
Example Sentences
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She jumped at me troat thin an' would you belave me, As quick as a wink through the dure did she have me, And howled as I struck—will her tones ever lave me?—
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Well, say, as the tramp says, 'Me stomach tinks me troat's cut.'
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“No good, now,” he answered, mournfully; “dey cut all our troats.”
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"Big man me shoot got him bullet through chest; little man with black beard and nose like cockatoo you shoot, got him bullet through chest too, close up longa troat."
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If she stop, dat fellow cut her troat.”
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