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troat

/ ٰəʊ /

verb

  1. intr (of a rutting buck) to call or bellow
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of troat1

C17: probably related to Old French trout, trut , a cry used by hunters to urge on the dogs
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She jumped at me troat thin an' would you belave me, As quick as a wink through the dure did she have me, And howled as I struck—will her tones ever lave me?—

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Well, say, as the tramp says, 'Me stomach tinks me troat's cut.'

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“No good, now,” he answered, mournfully; “dey cut all our troats.”

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"Big man me shoot got him bullet through chest; little man with black beard and nose like cockatoo you shoot, got him bullet through chest too, close up longa troat."

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If she stop, dat fellow cut her troat.”

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