windpipe

[wind-pahyp]

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noun

the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.

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Origin of windpipe

First recorded in 1520–30; wind¹ + pipe¹

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Examples from the Web for windpipe

After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision.
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He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe.
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Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator.
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This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write.
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"It won't do, Gascoyne," gasped poor Corrie, on being permitted again to use his windpipe.
Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader|R. M. Ballantyne
But I had him, held him, put all my strength with it and felt his windpipe gradually being crushed closer and closer.
Fast as the Wind|Nat Gould
The windpipe divides at its lower end between the lungs into two branches.
Health Lessons|Alvin Davison
The nose and windpipe also open into this bag, but both are closed by little doors while we swallow.
Applied Physiology|Frank Overton
Thrice he aimed the knife to his windpipe with a most determined threatening air.
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British Dictionary definitions for windpipe

windpipe

noun

a nontechnical name for trachea (def. 1) Related adjective: tracheal

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Word Origin and History for windpipe