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Throttle vs Throstle - What's the difference?

throttle | throstle |

As nouns the difference between throttle and throstle

is that throttle is a valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine while throstle is a song thrush.

As a verb throttle

is to cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).

throttle

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
  • The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
  • The windpipe or trachea.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (throttl)
  • To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
  • To strangle or choke someone.
  • * Milton
  • Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
  • To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
  • To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
  • To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Throttle their practised accent in their fears.

    throstle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A song thrush.
  • * 1804 , Anthony Florian Madinger Willich, James Mease, The Domestic Encyclopaedia: or, A Dictionary of Facts and Useful Knowledge , page 115,
  • The throstle is by some believed to be the finest singing bird in Britain, on account of the sweetness, variety, and continuance of its melody.
  • A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.
  • * 1836 , James Montgomery, The Theory and Practice of Cotton Spinning, or, The Carding and Spinning Master’s Assistant , page 223,
  • THE RING THROSTLE .
    A Throstle' under the above title has been recently introduced from America, the principal novel feature of which, is a substitute for the flyer and heavy spindle of the common '''throstle''', and for the cone or cape, and the barrel tube of the Danforth ' throstle .

    References

    (Webster 1913)