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- noun Obsolete spelling of
throat .
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Examples
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Also when they will prouoke any man, they pul him by the eares to the drinke, and lug and drawe him strongly to stretch out his throate clapping their handes and dauncing before him.
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But Huswife, now I must further know, what the Fryar is, with whom you are so farre in love, and (by meanes of his enchantments) lyeth with you every night; tell me what and who he is, or else I meane to cut your throate.
The Decameron 2004
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Now, although they were very expert and cunning men all, yet could they not so perfectly cure her, but both her throate, and part of her face were so blemished that whereas she seemed a rare creature before, she was now deformed and much unsightly.
The Decameron 2004
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The vpper part of their helmet is of iron or steele, but that part which compasseth about the necke and the throate is of leather.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Being thus seised of her, he carried her as lightly away, as if shee had bin no heavier then a Lambe, she being (by no meanes) able to cry, because he held her so fast by the throate, and hindred any helping of her selfe.
The Decameron 2004
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Talano de Molese dreamed, That a Wolfe rent and tore his wives face and throate.
The Decameron 2004
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The vpper part of their helmet is of iron or steele, but that part which compasseth about the necke and the throate is of leather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also when they will prouoke any man, they pul him by the eares to the drinke, and lug and drawe him strongly to stretch out his throate clapping their handes and dauncing before him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their speech is verie sudden and loude, speaking as it were out of a deepe hollowe throate.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A mischiefe fill thy throate, thou fowle-jaw'd slave!
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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