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Word Meanings - THROATBOLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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
  • ADAM'S APPLE
    See ADAM
  • STRAPPLE
    To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
  • 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.

 

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