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▪ I. strangling, vbl. n.|ˈstræŋglɪŋ|
[f. strangle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. strangle.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1600 Myn is the stranglyng and hangyng by the throte. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Sqynancy is strangeling of þe þrote. 1538Elyot Dict., Suffocatio, a stranglynge. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 427/1 Incubus,..a kinde of disease called the night mare or witch, being a certeine pressing downe and strangling of the bodie. 1611Bible Job vii. 15 My soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life. 1649Lamont Diary (Maitl. Club) 12 It was thought..that she wronged her selfe, ether by strangling, or by poyson. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 29 But between the Wound..and the strangling of the Water, he dyed just before he reach'd the Shore. 1820Scott Monast. x, They say the Primate recommends a little strangling and burning in aid both of censure and of sword. 1914Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 768 It seems to us improbable that they would have killed him by strangling.
†2. Path. Strangulation, stricture. Obs.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 76 The hearb brused with oyle..dooth help the strangling of the priuitie. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick 191 Svffocation or strangling of the wombe is nothing else but a drawing backe of it to the vpper partes. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Nightingale, Another disease incident to these Birds..is called Streightness or Strangling in the breast.
†3. pl. ? = strangles Obs.
1624L. W. C. Perf. Disc. Horse A 4 b, Stranglings, is a swelling in the Throat.
4. attrib.
1592Soliman & Pers. v. ii. 7 See that your strangling cords be ready. 1911J. G. Frazer in Manch. Oriental Soc. Jrnl. 108 The strangling-net is then undone.
▪ II. strangling, ppl. a.|ˈstræŋglɪŋ|
[f. strangle v. + -ing2.]
That strangles, in senses of the vb.
1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 108 Their praises and soothings are but strangling morsels smeared ouer with hony. a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered 143 In them Both, a strangling vertue note, And both of them doe worke upon the Throte. a1682Sir T. Browne Misc. Tracts (1684) 88 Cockle, wild strangling Fitches, Bindweed. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 16 Weeping..is the Discharge of a big and a swelling grief, of a full and strangling discontent. 1822–27Good Study Med. (1829) I. 631 The suffocative convulsion..must produce that strangling constriction or straitness which is a pathognomic sign of asthma. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1789 Tree by tree, with strangling roots. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 45 The tight strangling grip of the inelastic fibrous sac. |