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stroup Obs. exc. dial.|struːp|
Forms: 4, 6 stroupe, 5, 7 strowpe, 6 strowp, 7 stroap, 7–9 stroop, stroup.
[a. ON. strúpe (also strjúpe) = MSw., mod.Sw. strupe, Da. strube, throat.]
1. The throat; the gullet or the wind-pipe.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 190 He smot him in þe helm, bakward he bare his stroupe. a1400Celestin 638 in Anglia I. 83 My weysaunt and my stroupe. c1440Promp. Parv. 480/2 Strowpe, of the throte, epiglotus. 1483Cath. Angl. 369/2 A Strowpe, lien. 1661Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. Ser. iii. I. 21 They..went into the byre and cutted the stroaps of eight heid of bestiall. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Stroop, the gullet. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Stroop, the gullet, or the wind-pipe. It seems indifferently applied to both. 1878S. H. Miller & Skertchly Fenland iv. 131 Stroop.
2. The spout of a pump, kettle, teapot, etc. Chiefly Sc.
1505in J. Bain & C. Rogers Liber Protocol. C. Simon (1877) I. 335 [Two silver phials, one of which wanted] the strowp. 1672G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks (1683) 292 This defect might be supplied by the blowing of Bellows from above ground, through a Stroop of Leather, or some other thing. 1828J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 II. 74 That stroop's a gran' pourer. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 224 The stroup of an old tea-pot.
†3. ? A hood. Obs.
1579in Bk. Univ. Kirk Scot. (1839) 187 The bruit was of same [read some] superstitious rites qwhilks ware prepared for the buriall, as ane qwhyte cross in the mortcloath, lang gownes with stroupes and torches. Ibid., Who returnit with answer, that the Lords should cause cover the mortcloath with black velvet, and the stroupes should be removit.
Hence strouped a., having a spout. ˈstroupless a., having no spout.
1744Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 339 A peuter strouped flaggon. 1802Medical Jrnl. VIII. 176 It was received into a strouped decanter. 1823Galt Entail lxxvii, I would na hae tied my talent in a napkin, nor hid it in a stroopless tea-pot. |