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thrapple

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Is thrapple a Scrabble word?

Yes, thrapple is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of thrapple?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.Examples: "A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles."; "A broad piece of leather is then to be put round his neck; and the ends made faſt, by platting it, or ſome other way, at the withers, or before the wind-pipe, about two handfuls below the thrapple, betwixt the leather and his neck; [...]"; "I hif a gude mind to ſwallow you, gin I kent your back widna ſtick in my thrapple."Northern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotland

verb (English)

1. (transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To strangle, to throttle.Examples: "Then Mr. Weft began his tale, how he had been collared and well nigh thrappled in his ain shop; [...]"; "A Scotch writer of the time [Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne and Kinnaird] has handed down, for the admiration of successive ages, "the renowned Christian valyancie of those godly women," regretting only that the bishop of Edinburgh escaped being "sticked" or "thrappled‡," by their pious hands, which unfortunately "were not as active as their minds were willing." [Footnote ‡: Strangled.]"; "We'll now have plinty o' time for the throopers, though I swore like a Trojan through thick an' thin (an' nearly got myself thrappled (throttled) for my pains be that powerful villain Fergus), that the fun ud be spilet, af the attack wasn't to-night."Northern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotlanddatedtransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "thrapple"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "thrapple"?

Scrabble
15 points
T1
H4
R1
A1
P3
P3
L1
E1
Words With Friends
17 points
T1
H3
R1
A1
P4
P4
L2
E1

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