weasand

[wee-zuh nd]

noun Archaic.

esophagus; gullet.

trachea; windpipe.

Origin of weasand

before 1000; Middle English wesand, Old English wǣsend, variant of wāsend gullet; cognate with Old Frisian wāsande windpipe

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Historical Examples of weasand

I was taken with my hand in the bag, and my knife in the weasand of the stiff'un.
The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6
Eugne Sue
I'll unfas—unfasten you, and you'll slice his weasand—won't you, Gargousse?'
The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6
Eugne Sue
I heard the breath squeak in his weasand; and Jack Gaunt pulled me off.
The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mangrove, the moment he saw where he was, drew his knife across the leopard's weasand, and killed him on the spot.
Tom Cringle's Log
Michael Scott
Within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood

British Dictionary definitions for weasand

weasand

noun

a former name for the trachea

Word Origin for weasand

Old English wǣsend, wāsend; related to Old Frisian wāsenda, Old High German weisont vein, Danish vissen

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