Word Meanings - THROATBOLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Adam's apple in the neck. By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to THROATBOLL)

• CAUGHT
  f Catch.
• APPLE
  Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak
• APPLE-JOHN
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.
• APPLE-SQUIRE
  A pimp; a kept gallant. Beau. & Fl.
• APPLE PIE
  A pie made of apples with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement.
• APPLE-FACED
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.
• APPLE-JACK
  Apple brandy.
• THROATBOLL
  The Adam's apple in the neck. By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.
• UPCAUGHT
  Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• CHESS-APPLE
  The wild service of Europe .
• CRAPPLE
  A claw.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• OTAHEITE APPLE
  The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree , also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree which bears
• SCAPPLE
  To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.
• VI-APPLE
  See APPLE
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• ADAM'S APPLE
  See ADAM
• GRAPPLEMENT
  A grappling; close fight or embrace. Spenser.
• GRAPPLE
  1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. 2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
• DAPPLE
  One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.