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Thrapple

Thrapple \Thrap"ple\, n. [Also thropple, corrupted fr. throttle.] Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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thrapple

n. (context Scotland northern England English) The throat, especially the windpipe or gullet.

Usage examples of "thrapple".

The highway stops short at the castle, and beyond it a drove road tracks the ultimate waters of the Laver, and makes its way, by a pass called the Raxed Thrapple, to the English Border.

Mak a clean breist o' 't, afore the Adversary has ye again by the thrapple!