Meaning of thrapple | Babel Free

Definitions

The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.

Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland

Examples

“A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like⟳ a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like⟳ bulles.”

“A broad piece of leather is then to be put⟳ round his neck; and the ends made faſt, by platting it, or ſome other way, at the withers, or before the wind-pipe, about two handfuls below the thrapple, betwixt the leather and his neck; [...]”

“I hif a gude mind⟳ to ſwallow you, gin I kent your back widna ſtick in my thrapple.”

“Sara sent twice for the measure⟳ of George's Neck—he wondered, Sara should be such a fool, she might have⟳ measured William's or Coleridge's, as all poets' Thropples were of one Size.”

“Luok, leyke mad bulls they bang about, / Wi' shouts their thropples rivan, / Wheyle whup for smack the rabble rout, / Are yen owr tother drivan; [...]”

“Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?”

“The morse [i.e., walrus] is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...] 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 his animal; [...]”

“In the sentiment of the following lines on "A pipe of Tobacco" by John Usher, all lovers of the plant⟳ will heartily join⟳: "Let⟳ the toper regale in his tankard of ale, / Or with alcohol moisten his thropple, / Only give⟳ me I pray, a good pipe of soft clay, / Nicely tapered, and thin in the stopple; / And I shall puff, puff, let⟳ who will say⟳ enough, / No luxury else I'm in lack o', / No malice I hoard, 'gainst Queen, Prince, Duke or Lord, / While I pull⟳ at my pipe of Tobacco. [..."]”

“The Master—the deil's in their thrapples that should call⟳ him sae! it's Mr. Henry should be master now!”

“"God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your thrapples, I'd thraw them fine and send⟳ your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."”

“There is one type⟳ of neck which so constantly results in roaring that it is known in Yorkshire as a "roarer's neck," and sooner or later the horse which is so shaped is almost certain to fall⟳ a victim to the complaint. The neck in question⟳ is a strong thick one, with the head carried high, but there is a peculiar outward curve in front, somewhat resembling that of a fallow deer, with an unusually thick thropple, the formation of which, no doubt⟳, sustains a constant strain⟳ on the nerve, which eventually fails in consequence.”

“'He'll do nowt o' the sort⟳,' I answered; 'and he wi' a hoast in his thropple like⟳ a badly cow. I sudn't be surprised if he were dead by Chrissamas.'”

“And she said it, she felt like⟳ a hen with a stone in its thrapple, [...]”

“[T]he old man raised the axe and split⟳ the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple.”

“When the bishop came out, the women shouted 'get⟳ the thrapple out of him' or cut⟳ his windpipe; he barely escaped with his life.”

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