Definition of "weasand"

weasand

/ˈwiːzənd/

noun
plural weasands
1. The oesophagus; the gullet.
  Quotations
  “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.”
  1820, Walter Scott, chapter 42, in Ivanhoe‎
2. The throat or windpipe.
  Quotations
  Caliban: […] Or cut his wezand with thy knife.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii], page 12
  Rat.I’ll slily seize andLet blood from her weasand,—Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.
  1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
  They're both so engrossed in this that they don't notice my landlady, who comes rushing out to learn what's going on. "Why," her son explains, "he grabbed me by the weasand, it took me a long time to get my wind back."
  1890, Knut Hamsen, Sult (Hunger), Part Four, at p.181 (Canongate Books Ltd. 2016 paperback edition), Sverre Lyngstad translation
  ‘Which fellows?’ Very loud now, but a tightening in her weasand.
  1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life