单词 | thrappled |
释义 | thrappledadj. Now rare. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a throat or windpipe of the specified kind, or like that of the animal specified. In early use chiefly of horses.Recorded earliest in cock-thrappled adj. open-thrappled: fond of alcoholic drink. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of neck > having particular type of windpipe cock-thrappled1593 thrappled1593 cock-throttled1720 1593 G. Markham Disc. Horsmanshippe iii. sig. Gv His thropell or wind-pipe, would bee big to a mans feeling, and straight to his eye, for if when he raineth, it haue a bent like a bow, which we cal Cock-thropled. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. iv. 71 A full eie, open nostrell, wide iawed, loose thropled, deepe neckt. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pursiness When the Horse is Cock-thropled, for that his Throple or Wind-pipe being so long, he is not able to draw it [sc. breath] in and out with so much Ease and Pleasure as other Horses do that are loose thropled. 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 90 Loud noise by some caw'd disputation, For want of better conversation Employ'd this open throppl'd crew. 1846 Bell's Life in London 25 Oct. 6/2 Every now and then a great golden throppled cock pheasant..rose with boisterous clamour. 2004 A. Hasler tr. G. Heym Poems 17 Hanged men, blue-thrappled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593 |
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