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ˈneck-break, adv. and n.
[Cf. break-neck.]
A. adv. In a break-neck or headlong manner.
In dial. use also as adj.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.
1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xv. §2. 256 Ventring neck-breake, (as Goates in Winter, that climbe for Ivie) over Pales, and Walles. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iii. Wks. 1716 III. 162 That they may ride them Neck-break to both their Destructions here and hereafter. 1877Holderness Gloss., Neck-brek, -brake,..impetuously, at dangerous speed.
†B. n. Sc. = break-neck n.
a1665W. Guthrie Serm. 14 (Jam.), Folks poring over much on the tentation is their neck-break and their snare. 1709Bruce Serm. in Kirkton Hist. Ch. Scot. (1817) 274 Beware of Scripture, for you may be your own neck-break.
So neck-breaking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. ix. §19 Soon after happned..Eli's heart-breaking with the news, neck-breaking with his fall. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 166 The Baronet begged leave to decline the neck-breaking experiment. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 39 Fox-hunting.., though exciting and exhilarating, does not..present such conveniences for neck-breaking as people..imagine. |