Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrappled
Literary usage of Thrappled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England by James Mackintosh, William Wallace, Robert Bell (1835)
"... of Edinburgh escaped being " sticked t" or " thrappled :):," by their pious
hands, which unfortunately " were not as active as their minds were willing. ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"Then Mr. Weft hegan his tale, how he had heen collared and weel nigh thrappled
in his ain shop;—then the ither tauld how in the first place Mr. ..."
3. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"They are all what is vulgarly termed cock- thrappled,—that is to say, having the
windpipe and fore-neck, above its insertion in the chest, projected like ..."
4. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"They are all what is vulgarly termed cock- thrappled, — that is to say, having
the windpipe and fore-neck, above its insertion in the chest, projected like ..."
5. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"As the bird flies within reach overhead the man strikes it with the pole.
The stunned bird tumbles down behind and is thrappled by a dog, and laid with the ..."
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