Wesand vs Weasand - What's the difference?
wesand | weasand |
The oesophagus; the windpipe; the trachea.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
The throat in general.
* 1964 , Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun :
Weasand is a alternative form of wesand.
As nouns the difference between wesand and weasand
is that wesand is obsolete form of lang=en while weasand is the oesophagus; the windpipe; the trachea.weasand
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- “By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it.”
- ‘Which fellows?’ Very loud now, but a tightening in her weasand .