(chiefly, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.
A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes lik…
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(transitive, chiefly, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To strangle, to throttle.
Then Mr. Weft began his tale, how he had been collared and well nigh thrappled in his ain shop; [...]
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