throttle, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

throttle n.

also thrattle-pipe, throttle-pipe

[northern UK dial.]

the throat.

a.1547		Surrey Æneid iv. 361: Amid his throtal his voice likewise gan stick [L. vox faucibus hæsit, Douglas the voce stak in his hals] [OED].
1629		R. Brome Northern Lasse III iii: Stir but a foot sirrah, or utter but a sillable and I’le cut your thrattle-pipe.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: throttle the Throat, or Gullet; He seiz’d his Throttle: i.e. He took him by the Throat.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1746		W. Dunkin Parson’s Revels (2010) 71: Yet in our Throttles, as at first, / Still rag’d an inextinguish’d Thirst.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 82: Your hides to save: let Hector swagger, / And in your throttles sheath his dagger.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 50: He hem’d, to make his throttle clear.
1810		C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 15: He’d empty a flask down his throttle.
1821		‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 32: They talked [...] till the two-and-ninepenny piece was melted down their throttles.
1830		W.H. Williams Wreck I iii: Come along, Mr. Gogmagog [...] you’ll have the colelywabbleums in your throttle.
1841		‘Tippling Paddy Flannagan’ Dublin Comic Songster 178: For whiskey’s my deadliest foe, / When down my throttle I shove it.
1852		Kendal Mercury 17 Apr. 6/1: To moisten his throttle it vas his delight.
1853		Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Sept. 50/1: We had nothing to moisten our throttle.
1865		‘I Likes A Drop Of Good Beer’ in I. Beadle Comic and Sentimental Song Bk 47: And, like my thirsty father, / My throttle’s always dry.
1870		Cythera’s Hymnal 37: His throttle / No liquor swallowed but Tokay.
1882		Bristol Magpie 22 June 19/1: They wetted, as Bill said, their throttles / With beer.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 4 Mar. 1/8: Hullo! old cock. Come and shove some of this down your blanky throttle.
1899		C. Rook Hooligan Nights 26: My muvver comes along and catches me by the throttle.
1899		Illus. Police Budget 28 Jan. 2/2: ‘Blast him! [...] If he’d been my own brother I’d have sliced his throttle-pipe’.
1932		M. Marshall Travels of Tramp-Royal 274: Dutchy! [...] open out the throttle! Ready!
1956		R. Service ‘A Snifter’ in Rhymes for my Rags 206: So I say ’tis malted milk / I’ll be skoffin’; / Sooth my throttle sleek as silk.