Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 4, 6 stroupe, 5, 7 strowpe, 6 strowp, 7 stroap, 7–9 stroop, stroup. [a. ON. strúpe (also strjúpe) = MSw., mod.Sw. strupe, Da. strube, throat.]
1. The throat; the gullet or the wind-pipe.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 190. He smot him in þe helm, bakward he bare his stroupe.
a. 1400. Celestin, 638, in Anglia, I. 83. My weysaunt and my stroupe.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 480/2. Strowpe, of the throte, epiglotus.
1483. Cath. Angl., 369/2. A Strowpe, lien.
1661. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. III. I. 21. They … went into the byre and cutted the stroaps of eight heid of bestiall.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss, Stroop, the gullet.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Stroop, the gullet, or the wind-pipe. It seems indifferently applied to both.
1878. S. H. Miller & Skertchly, Fenland, iv. 131. Stroop.
2. The spout of a pump, kettle, teapot, etc. Chiefly Sc.
1505. in J. Bain & C. Rogers, Liber Protocol. C. Simon (1877), I. 335. [Two silver phials, one of which wanted] the strowp.
1672. G. Sinclair, Hydrostaticks (1683), 292. This defect might be supplied by the blowing of Bellows from above ground, through a Stroop of Leather, or some other thing.
1828. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, II. 74. That stroop’s a gran’ pourer.
1842. J. Aiton, Domest. Econ. (1857), 224. The stroup of an old tea-pot.
† 3. ? A hood. Obs.
1579. in Bk. Univ. Kirk Scot. (1839), 187. The bruit was of same [read some] superstitious rites qwhilks ware prepared for the buriall, as ane qwhyte cross in the mortcloath, lang gownes with stroupes and torches. Ibid. Who returnit with answer, that the Lords should cause cover the mortcloath with black velvet, and the stroupes should be removit.
Hence Strouped a., having a spout. Stroupless a., having no spout.
1744. Rec. Elgin (1908), II. 339. A peuter strouped flaggon.
1802. Medical Jrnl., VIII. 176. It was received into a strouped decanter.
1823. Galt, Entail, lxxvii. I would na hae tied my talent in a napkin, nor hid it in a stroopless tea-pot.
