English

Alternative forms

• weazand
• wezzen, wizen, wizzen, wosen (dialectal)
• wesand, wessand, wezand (obsolete)

Noun

weasand ‎(plural weasands)

1. The oesophagus; the windpipe; the trachea.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “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.”

2. The throat in general.
   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     ‘Which fellows?’ Very loud now, but a tightening in her weasand.

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