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NECKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination)
Classified under:
Similar:
decollete; low-cut; low-necked ((of a garment) having a low-cut neckline)
high-necked ((of a garment) having a high neckline)
necklike (resembling a neck)
throated (having a throat as specified)
Antonym:
neckless (lacking or apparently lacking a neck)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb neck
Context examples:
He is a broad-faced, bull-necked, young butcher, with rough red cheeks, an ill-conditioned mind, and an injurious tongue.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Once a white-necked sea eagle soared screaming high over the traveller's head, and again a flock of brown bustards popped up from among the bracken, and blundered away in their clumsy fashion, half running, half flying, with strident cry and whirr of wings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)