Top Throttle Quotes

No one outside could imagine what it felt like to squeeze the life out of a man, to feel the jerking and juddering as you throttled away their last breath. Sometimes Jared found himself staring at his...

They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.

Throttle Definition

(n.) The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

(n.) The throttle valve.

(v. t.) To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.

(v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

(v. t.) To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

(v. i.) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

(v. i.) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.