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ˈring-neck, a. and n.
[f. ring n.1]
A. adj. = ring-necked a.
1817T. Forster Nat. Hist. Swallow tribe 94 Anas Bernicla, Ringneckgoose. 1848Craig s.v. Ring, Ring-neck pheasant, the Phasianus torquatus of Temminck. 1867Layard Birds S. Africa 167 Corvus Albicollis,..Ring-neck Crow. 1879J. G. Wood Waterton's Wand. S. Amer. 457 There are many species of Plover in Guiana. The most common are the Black-breasted.., the Ring-neck (C. semipalmatus), and the Sandy Plover. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 197/1 One [genus], Sepedon hæmachates, is named..‘Ring-Neck Snake’, the latter name being, however, often applied also to the cobra. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 390 The light-coloured band round the neck of the Ring-neck Parrakeet.
B. n.
1. a. A ring-necked plover or duck. Also, a ring-necked pheasant, etc.
1876Goode in Smithson. Coll. XIII. 10 Plover, ring-neck, surf-bird. 1890in Cent. Dict. 1921,1965[see Mongolian a. 4].
b. Austr. = jackaroo n.
1898Morris Austral Eng., Ring-neck,..a term used in the back blocks in reference to the white collar not infrequently worn by a Jackaroo on his first appearance.
2. A neck with ring-like markings.
1895Cumberland Sport Pamirs 148, I found the cock exactly like the English pheasant, without the ring neck. |