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单词 throttler
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throttlern.

Brit. /ˈθrɒtl̩ə/, /ˈθrɒtlə/, U.S. /ˈθrɑdlər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: throttle v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < throttle v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who or (occasionally) thing which throttles (in various senses of throttle v.).
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the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > strangler
strangler1552
throttler1810
1810 Antijacobin Rev. & Mag. Apr. 370 The stammerer, the stutterer, the throttler..and almost the whole order of unfortunate persons, whose impediments consist in obstructed utterance.
1829 Morning Jrnl. 2 Mar. 5/4 A puir senseless, heartless driveller..sympatheezed with the throttler.
1859 F. M. Müller Sci. Lang. (1861) ix. 367 All who have seen..the statue of Laokoon..may realise what those ancients felt..when they called sin anhas, or the throttler.
1932 Medicine Hat (Alberta) Weekly News 20 Oct. 5/1 The first attack of the ‘throttler’ was last Monday night.
1957 Times 30 Dec. 9/5 Bindweed the throttler, that puts out two tentacles for every one that is lopped off.
2013 Daily Mail (Nexis) 5 Feb. (headline) He's twee and civil—with the hands of a Victorian throttler.
2. Boxing slang. A blow or punch delivered to the throat. Cf. throater n. 1. Obsolete.
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1821 Brit. Luminary & Weekly Intelligencer 16 Dec. 408/1 Neate returned a counter hit for a throttler.
1823 Morning Chron. 15 May Tim the black received a throttler at good measurement, which brought on a groggifying hiccough.
1845 Sportsman's Mag. 12 July 210/1 Burke..received a throttler for his attempt.
1847 Bell's Life in London 5 Sept. 6/2 After receiving a throttler, Hough stopped.
3. A mechanism that controls the flow of a fluid by constriction or obstruction; spec. a throttle valve; = throttle n. 4a. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > throttle
throttle valve1798
throttle1838
throttler1850
1850 J. O.York Brit. Patent 13,297 (1856) 4 The boiler is cylindrical, with a circular fire box at one end for burning the coke, the arrows shewing the direction of the flue to the chimney at the end of the throttlers.., being for the purpose of arresting the draft, and the number of them will depend on the length of the flue.
1892 Mech. News 1 June 148/2 Almost in as great a degree as the automatic throttling engine is better than the old-fashioned kind..and as the automatic cut-off engine was better than the automatic throttler, the automatic damper regulator is better than the old-fashioned way of pulling a string one way or the other according to whether the steam was up or down.
1906 J. W. E. Douglas-Scott-Montagu Hist. First Ten Years Automobilism 105 After a few months driving I conceived the idea of economising steam by driving with the throttler always open.
1916 Southern Engineer June 162/2 To determine whether the steam leaving the throttler was entirely dry.
1998 Appl. Thermal Engin. 11 673 The condenser, evaporator and throttler serve the same functions as those in conventional vapor-cycle compression chillers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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