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Definition of Thrapple
1. n. Windpipe; throttle.
Definition of Thrapple
1. to throttle [v THRAPPLED, THRAPPLING, THRAPPLES] - See also: throttle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrapple
Literary usage of Thrapple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"thrapple, ». The windpipe, 8. ... Го thrapple up, to To devour in ... gobble up,
Ang. Го thrapple, ». a. ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Then owre again the jovial thrang See how she fetches at the thrapple, Letter toj.
Goudie. As murder at his thrapple shor'd ; The Election Ballads. VI. ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To throttle or sträng) gobble up, Ang. To thrapple, va To entangle with co THRASH, ».
A rush, Loth. ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1903)
"... -ma-thrapple, if your ancestor had gi'en mine nae better a leg up on the day
o' Worcester fecht, its little likely that I wad hae been here this day ! ..."
5. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"thrapple is the northern form, and still in use. To thrapple one=to seize by the
throat. Mak ^«y/=set free from an obligation, to take satisfaction. ..."
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