weasand

/ˈwiːzənd/

weasand means the oesophagus; the gullet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

weasand is pronounced /ˈwiːzənd/.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”).

noun

The oesophagus; the gullet.“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.”
The throat or windpipe.“[…] Or cut his vvezand vvith thy knife.”

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