Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The throttle or windpipe.
  • To throttle; strangle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The windpipe.
  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To throttle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete larynx, windpipe
  • verb obsolete to throttle

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Examples

  • By the thirst of my thropple, friend, when snow is on the mountains, I say the head and the chin, there is not then any considerable heat to be expected in the valleys and low countries of the codpiece.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • By the thirst of my thropple, friend, when snow is on the mountains, I say the head and the chin, there is not then any considerable heat to be expected in the valleys and low countries of the codpiece.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Now full to the thropple wi 'heed warks an heart aches

    The Bleckell Murrymeet (Merry Night) 2000

  • Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 Various

  • Owd Jerry frae the public-house while the storm lasted, but he would toddle down ivery morning for his glass o 'yal, and, of course, he got his hoast back agean i' his thropple.

    More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • By the thirst of my thropple, friend, when snow is on the mountains, I say the head and the chin, there is not then any considerable heat to be expected in the valleys and low countries of the codpiece.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • "'He'll do nowt o' the sort, 'I answered;' and he wi 'a hoast in his thropple like a badly cow.

    More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • Anyhow, he's in the trap, and can't get out till he's hed my claws roun 'the scruff o' his neck an 'my thumb on his thropple. "

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

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  • thrapple

    December 16, 2010

  • Deceit is but awkwardly wrung

    From mouths still trusting and young.

    It stings like graupel,

    Stops up the thropple,

    And totally tangles the tongue.

    April 20, 2014