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þrot-bolla

  • noun [ masculine ]
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þrot-bolla, an; m.
The gullet, windpipe
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[Nu schal forrotien ... þi þrotebolle þat þu mide sunge,
  • Misc. 178, 173.
And by the throtebolle he caught Aleyn,
  • Chauc. Reeve's T. 353.
The throtebolle epyglotum,
  • Wülck. Gl. 580, 21
(15th cent.). Throte bolle frumen hominis est, rumen animalis est, ipoglotum,
  • Cath. Angl. 386.
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  • þrot-bolla, n.