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troat, v. Venery.|trəʊt|
Also 7 troyte, trout, throat; 9 erron. froat.
[Cf. OF. trout (Godef.), also trut, an interjection for urging on hunting dogs, asses, sheep. Cf. also rout v.3 to bellow.]
intr. To cry or bellow: said of a buck at rutting time; cf. bell v.4 2, bellow v. 2, groan v. 2. Hence ˈtroating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Réer, In tearmes of hunting we say, that..the fallow troytes or croynes. Ibid., Rere, to bellow as a Stag, to trout as a Buck. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. ix. 338 Here..the throating Bucks [are said] to lodge. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Buck, A Buck Growneth or Troateth, makes a Noise at Rutting time. 1727Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Buck-hunting, He groans and troats, as a Hart belleth. 1847–78Halliwell, Troat, to bellow, said of the buck. 1900Sporting Phraseology in Shooting Times 15 Dec. 15/1 Froating or troating, call of buck.
b. Said of a swan.
1839G. Darley Nepenthe i. (1897) 20 And [the swan] troats for joy, too proud for song. |