Obs. Forms: see THROAT sb. and BOWL sb.1 [OE. þrotbolla, f. þrote, THROAT + bolla: see BOWL sb.1 and BOLL sb.1 5. Cf. OFris. strotbolla in same sense.] The protuberance in the front of the throat; the Adam’s apple; hence, the larynx.
a. 700. Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.), 456. Gurgulio, throtbolla.
c. 725. Corpus G., 1000, & a. 800 Leiden G., Ðrotbolla.
a. 901. Laws K. Ælfred, c. 51. ʓif monnes ðrotbolla bið þyrel, ʓebete mid xii scill.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., ix. (Z.), 35. Gurgulio, ymel oððe ðrotbolla.
c. 1250. Death, 173, in O. E. Misc., 178. Þi þrote-bolle þat þu mide sunge.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 353. By the throte bolle he caughte Alayn … And on the nose he smoot hym with his fest.
c. 1450. Two Cookery-bks., 79. Take a Curlewe…; take awey the nether lippe and throte boll.
1529. Rastell, Pastyme, Hist. Brit (1811), 292. One of them … cut his throte bolle a sonder with a dagger.
1548–77. Vicary, Anat., ii. (1888), 19. It is necessarie in some meane places to put a grystle, as in the throte bowel for the sounde.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., III. (1593), 57. His throte-boll sweld with puffed veines.
1575. Gamm. Gurton, III. iii. C ij b. Trounce her, pull out her throte boule.
1611. Cotgr., Gueneau, the throtle, or throat-boll.
