weasand

American  

[wee-zuhnd] / ˈwi zənd /

noun

Archaic.

1. throat.

2. esophagus; gullet.

3. trachea; windpipe.

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weasand British  

/ ˈwiːzənd /

noun

1. a former name for the trachea

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Etymology

Origin of weasand

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

Example Sentences

He mourn'd his hapless want of claws, His teeth, too, batter'd by the paws Of Reynard, woefully he miss'd; For grasp'd within his well-clench'd fist, The Fox a flint stone firmly held, With which he deftly aim'd and fell'd One after t'other every fang, Till down his weasand, at each bang, Successively they flew.

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A comrade who slept in the bed immediately beside ours had one of his ears bitten through one night as he lay asleep, and remarked, that he supposed it would be his weasand they would attack next time; and, on rising one morning, I found that the four brightly plated jack-buttons to which my braces had been fastened had been fairly cut from off my trousers, and carried away, to form, I doubt not, a portion of some miser-hoard in the wall.

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Well, I have escaped the bow-string in a country where hundreds die of Sore Throat every day, and I can afford to laugh at any prospect of a wych round my weasand in mine old age.

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"Hush," said some one, and there was a running circle of frowns and the old voice ceased as abruptly as if its owner had been seized by the weasand.

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One of them, as I said before, had a red pow, and a foraging cap, with a black napkin roppined round his weasand; a jean jacket with six pockets, and square tails; a velveteen waistcoat with plated buttons; corduroy breeches buttoned at the knees; rig-and-fur stockings; and heavy, clanking wooden clogs. 

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