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ewe-neck
A thin hollow neck (in a horse).
1820W. Irving Sketch-bk. Sleepy Hollow (1887) 410 A broken-down plough-horse..with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports (ed. 3) 322 Between the two extremes of the ewe-neck and its opposite there are many degrees.
Hence ewe-necked a.
1704Lond. Gaz. No. 45 18/4 A grey Mare..Ewe-Neck'd. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Grey Dolphin, His dapple-grey steed..was a little ewe-necked. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883) 222 Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Yowe neck't, the arch of the neck bending downwards. |