- Car accelerator - Choke on fluid valve - Gas pedal - The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. - The throttle valve. - To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. - To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner
of a person half suffocated.
- Breathe out - Breathe with a rattling sound - Breathe with difficulty - To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling
sound, as persons affected with asthma. - A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult
respiration. - An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse
sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some
admixture of tone.
- An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens),
belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and
when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it
remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.