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ˈneck-bone Also 4 nek bon, nekke boon, etc. [f. neck n.1 Cf. MDu. nacbeen (Du. nekbeen), Da. nakkeben (Norw. -bein), Sw. nackben.] The bone († or nape) of the neck; a cervical vertebra.
c1320Sir Tristr. 1480 Tristrem rauȝt his brain And brak his nek bon. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 571 A hand him smoot upon the nekke-boon. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 3257 Sir Ywain with his brand was boun, And strake his nek-bane right in sonder. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Astragalus... In Homere, it is taken for the neckebone, where it ioygneth to the backebone. 1632Sherwood, The neck-bone, l'os du gaujon. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 126 So to the earth he headlong fell, And broke his neck-bone. 1711Addison Spect. No. 32 ⁋2 Alexander the Great wore his Head a little over the left Shoulder; and then not a Soul stirred out 'till he had adjusted his Neck-bone. 1791Burns Tam o' Shanter 92 Past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Chairlie brak's neck-bane. 1831Youatt Horse 154 It is the base of the column of neck-bones. |