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thrapples

thrapples is the plural of thrapple.

thrapples is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thrapple.

Meaning of thrapple

Noun

thrapple (plural thrapples)

  1. (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 like bulles.[1600, Al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi [i.e., Leo Africanus], “A Briefe Relation Concerning the Dominions, Reuenues, Forces, and Maner of Gouernment of Sundry the Greatest Princes either...

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Questions about thrapples

What is thrapples the plural of?
Thrapples is the plural of thrapple.

Words near thrapples in the dictionary

  1. thrap
  2. thrapped
  3. thrapping
  4. thrapple
  5. thrappled
  6. thrapples
  7. thrappling
  8. thraps
  9. Thrapston
  10. thrash
  11. thrash about

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