weasand
Syllables: wea·sand/ˈwiːzənd/
weasand noun: the oesophagus; the gullet.
Noun
weasand (plural weasands)
- The oesophagus; the gullet.
- By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XLII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst...
- The throat or windpipe.
- […] Or cut his vvezand vvith thy knife.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
- [A]lthough the vveazon, throtle and tongue [of birds] be the inſtruments of voice, and by their agitations doe chiefly concurre unto theſe delightfull modulations, yet cannot vve aſſigne the cauſe unto any particular formation; […]1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Wish of Philoxenus [of Leucas]”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 7th book, page 368
weasand meaning in Tamil and Urdu
weasand in Tamil
- மூச்சுப் பெருங்குழாய்
weasand in Urdu
- گلا, حلق, نرخرا
Examples of weasand in a sentence
- Rat. / I’ll slily seize and / Let blood from her weasand,— / Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, / With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- ‘Which fellows?’ Very loud now, but a tightening in her weasand.1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life:
Forms of weasand
| plural | weasands |
|---|---|
| alternative form | weazand |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wassin |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wezzen |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wizen |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wizzen |
| alternative form (dialectal) | wosen |
| alternative form (obsolete) | weazon |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wesan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wessand |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wezand |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wezon |
Origin of weasand
Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”).
Words that rhyme with weasand
Questions about weasand
- What does weasand mean?
- Weasand means the oesophagus; the gullet.
- What is weasand in Tamil?
- Weasand in Tamil is மூச்சுப் பெருங்குழாய். See Weasand meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use weasand in a sentence?
- Rat. / I’ll slily seize and / Let blood from her weasand,— / Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, / With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.
- What part of speech is weasand?
- Weasand is a noun.
- How do you pronounce weasand?
- Weasand is pronounced /ˈwiːzənd/.
- What is the plural of weasand?
- The plural of weasand is weasands.
Words near weasand in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: weasand (page history and authors); weasand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weasand (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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