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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

(Zool.)

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[Prov. Eng.]

throttler ‎(plural throttlers)

(figuratively) One who throttles.
- Missionary Review of the World; 1878-1939 (volume 20, part 2, page 723)
  […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade.