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▪ I. necklace, n.|ˈnɛklɪs|
Also 7 nycklease, necles, necklasse.
[f. neck n.1 + lace n.]
1. An ornament of precious stones or precious metal, beads, etc. worn round the neck.
c1590Marlowe Faustus vi, Next, like a necklace, I hang about her neck. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xii. 62 You must put about your necke a necklace of Iaspar stone. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 5 This Chain is round in form of a Bracelet, Neck-lace, or Wheel-band. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 127 Instead of the garland she has a necklace in her hand. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park II. 182 Being requested to chuse from among several gold chains and necklaces. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xiii. 350 The necklaces consist of onyx, carnelian, bone, silver, and coloured glass beads.
†b. A lace or ribbon for the neck; a neck-tie.
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) II. i. 43 They have Band-strings or Necklaces fastened to their Hats; which coming under their Chins are there tied. 1740Richardson Pamela I. 50 Then I bought of a Pedlar..two Yards of black Ribband for my Shift Sleeves, and to serve as a Necklace.
2. transf. A noose or halter.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca ii. iii, What are these fellows? what's the crime committed, That they wear necklaces? a1625Fletcher Bloody Brother iii. ii, You peaching rogue, that provided us With these necklaces.
b. S. Afr. (Freq. with definite article). A tyre soaked or filled with petrol, placed round the victim's neck and shoulders, and set alight, as a form of lynching or unofficial execution. Freq. attrib., as necklace murder, etc.
1985Washington Post 12 Aug. a9/2 A group of young blacks caught him and pulled him to the ground. As he lay there they smashed rocks into his skull and body. Then came the ‘necklace’ burning. 1985Grocott's Mail (Grahamstown, S. Afr.) 1 Oct. 3 Notes put under doors threatening occupants with ‘the necklace’ should they buy from white shops. 1986Times 22 Apr. 7/7 Four more blacks..have been killed in ‘necklace’ murders..in South African townships. 1987Daily Tel. 28 May 10/4 Setting fire to tyre ‘necklaces’ is a method of execution used by blacks to execute informers.
3. Naut.
a. A chain or strop round a mast.
1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 55 Necklaces are rove round the heel of the mainmast. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 33 The necklace..goes round the mast-head immediately on top of the trestletrees and crosstrees.
b. A ring of wads placed round a gun.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 495.
4. attrib. and Comb., as necklace-collar, necklace-maker; necklace-like, necklace-shaped adjs.
1769Public Advertiser 14 Mar. 2/2 A Parcel of Beads, Bugles, &c., the Property of Mrs. Smith, Necklace-Maker. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1839) 450 Necklace-shaped.., cylindrical or terete, and contracted at regular intervals. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §398 The hairs are beautifully coloured, and moniliform..or necklace-like. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 189 The chief standard⁓bearer is distinguished by a gold necklace-collar.
b. Special combs., as necklace-moss, the lichen Usnea barbata; necklace-poplar, the cottonwood or Carolina poplar, bearing racemes of pods which resemble strings of beads; † necklace-snake (see quot. 1753); necklace-tree (see quot. 1866); necklace-wood (see quot. 1883).
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App. s.v. Snake, Necklace-Snake, the English name of the natrix torquata of zoologists. 1758Phil. Trans. L. 664 The long beaded usnea, or necklace moss, enters into the like œconomical uses in Virginia. 1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 507 Populus monilifera, Necklace Poplar. 1866Treas. Bot. 823/1 Ormosia dasycarpa is the West Indian Bead-tree or Necklace-tree, the seeds of which..are roundish, beautifully polished, and of a bright scarlet colour. 1883C. A. Moloney W. African Fisheries (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) 34 The poison residing in the stems of the Barbasco or Necklace wood (Jacquinia armillaris, Linn.).
▪ II. necklace, v.|ˈnɛklɪs|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. and intr. To form into a necklace.
1702Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1251 The Roots..are fibrous, to which lower adhere others as it were Necklaced and Strung. 1893Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Dec. 709 The sheaves shewed a slight tendency to necklace—i.e. to hang together by the heads.
2. trans. To encircle or surround with, or as with, a necklace.
1763Grainger Sugar Cane iv. 6 Quick papaw, whose top is necklac'd round With numerous rows of party-colour'd fruit. 1817Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. ii. 215 A church..necklaced near the top with a round of large gilt balls. 1893National Observer 24 June 144/2 He necklaced a certain Dutch captain with sausages.
b. S. Afr. To lynch or kill by means of the necklace (sense 2 b).
1986Guardian 16 Apr. 6/6 Their first statement on the discovery of 32 charred bodies suggested that the victims had been ‘necklaced’. 1986Sunday Tel. 7 Sept. 2/7 Last year, he [sc. Bishop Tutu] did shoulder his way through a crowd to save the life of a man who was about to be ‘necklaced’. 1987Sunday Tel. 28 June 9/5 According to the British-born scholar, Dr Tom Lodge, the first person to be necklaced was Mr T B Kinkini, a town councillor in the Eastern Cape township of Kwanobuhle.
Hence (or from the n.) ˈnecklaced a.; ˈnecklacing vbl. n.
1731Fielding Covent Gard. Trag. ii. vi, Ten thousand load of timber shall embrace Thy necklaced neck. a1794Sir W. Jones (T.), The hooded and the necklaced snake. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iv. i. 322 Frey was a god of fruitfulness and sexuality. His necklaced sister was his genial counterpart. 1986Washington Post 18 Feb. a16/2 The policeman had been prepared for ‘necklacing’ by being doused with gasoline and having a rubber tire placed around his neck. 1986Times 22 Apr. 7/7 The man's ‘necklaced’ body was found in a primary school toilet. |