† 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.
| a 700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 456 Gurgulio, throtbolla. c 725 Corpus G. 1000 Ðrotbolla. [So a 800 Leiden G.] a 901 Laws K. ælfred c. 51 ᵹif monnes ðrotbolla bið þyrel, ᵹebete mid xii scill. c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 35 Gurgulio, ymel oððe ðrotbolla. c 1250 Death 173 in O.E. Misc. 178 Þi þrote-bolle þat þu mide sunge. c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 353 By the throte bolle he caughte Alayn..And on the nose he smoot hym with his fest. c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Curlewe..; take awey the nether lippe and throte boll. 1529 Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811) 292 One of them..cut his throte bolle a sonder with a dagger. 1548–77 Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 19 It is necessarie in some meane places to put a grystle, as in the throte bowel for the sounde. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. iii. (1593) 57 His throte-boll sweld with puffed veines. 1575 Gamm. Gurton iii. iii. C iij b, Trounce her, pull out her throte boule. 1611 Cotgr., Gueneau, the throtle, or throat⁓boll. |