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† ˈthroat-boll Obs. Forms: see throat n. and bowl n.1 [OE. þrotbolla, f. þrote, throat + bolla: see bowl n.1 and boll n.1 5. Cf. OFris. strotbolla in same sense.] The protuberance in the front of the throat; the Adam's apple; hence, the larynx.
a700Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 456 Gurgulio, throtbolla. c725Corpus G. 1000 Ðrotbolla. [So a 800 Leiden G.] a901Laws K. ælfred c. 51 ᵹif monnes ðrotbolla bið þyrel, ᵹebete mid xii scill. c1000ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 35 Gurgulio, ymel oððe ðrotbolla. c1250Death 173 in O.E. Misc. 178 Þi þrote-bolle þat þu mide sunge. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 353 By the throte bolle he caughte Alayn..And on the nose he smoot hym with his fest. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Curlewe..; take awey the nether lippe and throte boll. 1529Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811) 292 One of them..cut his throte bolle a sonder with a dagger. 1548–77Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 19 It is necessarie in some meane places to put a grystle, as in the throte bowel for the sounde. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. iii. (1593) 57 His throte-boll sweld with puffed veines. 1575Gamm. Gurton iii. iii. C iij b, Trounce her, pull out her throte boule. 1611Cotgr., Gueneau, the throtle, or throat⁓boll. |