troat, v. Venery.
(trəʊt)
Also 7 troyte, trout, throat; 9 erron. froat.
[Cf. OF. trout (Godef.), also trut, an interjection for urging on hunting dogs, asses, sheep. Cf. also rout v.3 to bellow.]
intr. To cry or bellow: said of a buck at rutting time; cf. bell v.4 2, bellow v. 2, groan v. 2. Hence ˈtroating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Réer, In tearmes of hunting we say, that..the fallow troytes or croynes. Ibid., Rere, to bellow as a Stag, to trout as a Buck. 1650 Fuller Pisgah iii. ix. 338 Here..the throating Bucks [are said] to lodge. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Buck, A Buck Growneth or Troateth, makes a Noise at Rutting time. 1727 Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Buck-hunting, He groans and troats, as a Hart belleth. 1847–78 Halliwell, Troat, to bellow, said of the buck. 1900 Sporting Phraseology in Shooting Times 15 Dec. 15/1 Froating or troating, call of buck. |
b. Said of a swan.
| 1839 G. Darley Nepenthe i. (1897) 20 And [the swan] troats for joy, too proud for song. |