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▪ I. thropple, thrapple, n. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈθrop(ə)l, ˈθrap(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4–6 throppill, 6 -il, -el, 6–8 throple, 7 throp(p)ell, 6– thropple. β. 8– Sc. dial. thrapple.
[In use from 14th c. chiefly in the North. Origin obscure: its date is against its being an altered form of throttle n.
A conjecture that it is a descendant of OE. þrotbolla, throat-boll, does not fit phonology and local distribution.]
The throat; now esp. the windpipe or gullet. (More widely in use of a horse or other beast than of human beings.)
1375Barbour Bruce vii. 584 [The king] hyt þe formast in þe hals, Till throppill and vassand [v.r. wesand] ȝeid in twa. 1533Bellenden Livy i. x. (S.T.S.) I. 59 He straik this thrid brothir..in þe throppil. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 164 b, The violet..swageth and softeneth the throple and the breste. 1562― Baths 8 b, The diseases of the longes and winde pipe or throppel. 1570Levins Manip. 126/19 A Throppil, ingulum. 1607Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 15 The throppell, or neather part of the necke [of a horse] which goes from the vnder chappes to the brest. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2527/4 A Light grey Mare,..one feather on each side her Thropple. 1755Johnson, Thrapple, the windpipe of any animal. They still retain it in the Scottish dialect. a1758Ramsay Address of Thanks xviii, Bring to the warld the luckless wean, And sneg its infant thrapple. 1815Scott Guy M. i, Sorrow be in your thrapple then! 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Thropple, the windpipe, the throat. ‘A bull's thropple’. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 218 That dry yeukin' in my thrapple.
▪ II. ˈthropple, ˈthrapple, v. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To throttle, strangle.
1570Levins Manip. 170/16 To Thropple, iugulare. 1674Ray N.C. Words, To Thropple, to Throttle or strangle. 1806J. Cock Simple Strains (1810) II. 136 (E.D.D.) Some were maistly thrappl't Wi' grips that night. 1899J. Strang Lass of Lennox iii. 29 I could thrapple ye whaur ye staun'. |