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▪ I. collar, n.|ˈkɒlə(r)|
Forms: 3–6 coler, 5–7 coller, 5–6 colar, 5– collar; also 4–5 colere, 5 coleer, collere, (colyer), 6 collare, (choller, 7 choler, couller, collor, colour).
[ME. coler, a. AF. coler = OF. colier (later collier) = Pr. colar, Sp. collar, It. collare:—L. collāre, f. coll-um neck: see -ar1 2. By successive approximations to the Latin, coler has become collar.]
I. Something worn about the neck.
1. The part of a garment which encircles the neck, or forms the upper border near the neck; the neckband of a coat, cloak, dress, shirt, etc., either standing up round the neck, or folded over upon the garment; also a separate article of attire worn round the neck; now particularly applied to the band (often separate) of linen, muslin, lace, etc., which, in various shapes, is worn as an ornament or finish to the upper part of the ordinary dress of men and women.
a1300Cursor M. 28016 (Cott.) Biletts for-broiden and colers wide. 1382Wyclif Job xxx. 18 As with a coler [Vulg. capitio] of a kote thei girten me. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 79 A brooch sche baar vp on hir loue coler. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 31 Seruyng women of lowe astate..thei furre her colers, that hangin doune into the middil of the backe. 1557F. Seager Sch. Virtue 86 in Babees Bk. (1868) 338 Thy shyrte coler fast to thy necke knyt. 1612Rowlands Knave of Hearts, Let us have standing collars in the fashion; All are become a stiff-necked generation. 1709Steele Tatler No. 118 ⁋ 10 Two Thirds of the greatest Beauties about Town will have Cambrick Collars on their Necks. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop II. iv. 30 He would perhaps be dragged by the collar through the public streets. 1881Ld. Dunraven in 19th Cent. Nov. 691 The gentility of most men is contained in their shirt collars..Remove it, supply its place with a ragged woollen muffler or kerchief of ancient date, and the effect is marvellous and sad. If you want to destroy an aristocracy, cut off their collars, not their heads.
2. A piece of armour protecting the neck; the neck-piece of a hauberk or similar piece of armour.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 223 Anne stroc he ȝef hym..þoru haubert and ys coler. c1400Destr. Troy 7318 He clefe hym to þe coler, & the kyng deghit. c1450Merlin x. 158 Lucas..smote hym with all his myght thourgh the coler of his haubrek. 1581Styward Mart. Discip. i. 44 A fayre Corslet, with all the peeces appertaining to the same, that is the curats, y⊇ collers, the poldrens with the Vambraces. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 3 Verie well armed with some kind of head-peece, a collar, etc.
†3.
a. An ornamental band or chain worn round the neck for ornament, or as a badge of office or livery; also, a necklace. Obs. in general sense.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1569 A coler of cler golde clos vmbe his þrote. c1440Promp. Parv. 87 Coller of leuery, torques. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 29 Thenne they took the colyer and the whyte baner of Vyenne. 1552Huloet Collar or bee whyche gentilwomen do vse to weare about their neckes, monile. Collar or chayne of golde or syluer, torques. 1611Bible Judg. viii. 26. 1642 Let. fr. Amsterdam in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 745, I cannot learn..of the sale of any Jewels, save divers Collars of Pearl.
b. spec. The ornamental chain which forms part of the insignia of orders of knighthood.
1488in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 393 A collar of cokkilschellis contenand xxiiii schellis of gold. 1548Hall Chron. an. 22 Hen. VII. (R.), The kyng..sent..to the Duke Urbyne, the whole habite and coller of the noble ordre of the gartier. 1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 121 A collar of the garter of thirtie ounces of gold Troie weight. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 362 The Collar of the Order being of pure gold, made of Garters and knots, and enameld with Roses white and red, weying about xxx. ounces Troy weight. 1647E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 4) 6 He..wore a great chaine like the Collar of some Order. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 97. 4/2 The Duke received the Collar of the Holy Ghost. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Collar, Knights of the Collar, a military order in the republic of Venice; called also the order of St. Mark, or the medal..the knights bear no particular habit, only the collar, or chain. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 24/1 The collar [of the Order of the Bath] to be of gold..composed of nine imperial crowns, and eight roses, thistles, and shamrocks issuing from a sceptre..linked together by seventeen gold knots..and having the badge of the order pendant from it.
c. Collar of SS., S's, or Esses: an ornamental chain consisting of a series of S's either joined together side by side or fastened in a row upon a band or ribbon; originally worn as a badge by the adherents of the House of Lancaster.
This still forms part of the official dress of various officers; the name is erroneously applied by Blount and others to the collar of the Order of the Garter.
1407Issue Roll of Excheq. in Cussans Heraldry 256 Paid 3 November..for a collar of gold worked with the Motto Soveignez and the letter S. 1519King's Bk. of Payments Aug. ibid., To Sir Richard Wingfield for a Collar of Esses. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 13 That no manne, onelesse he be a knight..weare any coler of golde named a coler of S. 1598Speght Chaucer's Wks. B iij, [Gower] lyeth buried..with his image lying ouer him..a collar of esses gold about his necke..being the ornament of a knight. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon § 230 (1810) 246 About their neck a silver collar of S's. 1681Blount Glossogr. s.v. Collardays, On those days the King and the Knights of the Garter wear their Collars of SS. 1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 601 The collar of esses [of the Lord Mayor] and sword..pass through many hands in..the use of them. 1719D'Urfey Pills I. 198 I'll ruffle no Collars of Esses. 1882Cussans Heraldry xviii. 255 The King-of-Arms, and Heralds; the Lord Mayor of London; the two Chief-Justices; the Chief-Baron; the Sergeants-at-Arms, and certain other officers of the Royal Household, still wear a Collar of S.S. as a mark of their official dignity.
fig.1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, Or to a mead a wanton river dresses, With richest collers of her turning esses.
4. A band put round the neck of a dog or other animal, as a means of control or identification, or for ornament; also transf.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 169 To bugge a belle of brasse or of briȝte syluer, And knitten on a colere for owre comune profit, And hangen it vp-on þe cattes hals. c1440Promp. Parv. 87 Coller of howndys, millus. 1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 812 Hic millus, a grehownd colere. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) II. 34 He that wyll labour a beast to hunt or chace..His lynes, colers, and lesshes he must dres. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 5 Mammonets are lesse than an Ape..his neck almost so big as his body, for which cause they are tied by the hips, that they slip not collar. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 13 His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar Shew'd him the gentleman and scholar. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §1948 Collars and slips are also parts of the greyhound's dress and appendages..The collars to which they are attached are now of leather, as metal collars stained the neck.
5. a. A band of iron or other metal fixed round the neck of prisoners, worn as a badge of servitude, etc.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 305 There was made..a strong cheyne and a coler of yren for hym. c1489― Sonnes of Aymon xvi. 369 And wyth all he gaff hym [Mawgis] a grete coler of yron abowte his necke wherof the kynge kepte the key hymselfe. c1530Hickscorner in Hazl. Dodsley I. 157 Among the thickest of yeomen of the collar. 1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3008/4 A Black Boy..run away the 8th Instant..having a Collar about his Neck with this Inscription, The Lady Bromfield's Black in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ii. xxii. 428 He was tied with a collar of iron about his neck, fastened to a chain, and that chain fastened to a post. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, A smith and a file..to do away the collar from the neck of a freeman. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 115, I wear an undress'd goatskin on my back; A grazing iron collar grinds my neck.
b. fig. An arrest; so † to put the collar on, to arrest. Cf. sense 8 below. U.S. Criminals' and Police slang.
1865Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar xlv. 151/1 His intended judy, Mary Ann, had got the ‘collar’ put on her. 1872G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service p.vii, Put the collar on, to arrest a criminal, and ‘iron’ him. 1893J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict xiv. 214, I done dem jobs Shay got the collar for. 1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 455/1 What do you think? The lousy bull makes a collar on me. 1952Time 3 Mar. 22/1 ‘The best collar in recent years,’ said the [police] commissioner. 1972J. Mills Report to Commissioner 70 Crouch..says..that I had better come up with some collars if I want to stay in the squad. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Sept. 3/4 The only guys that want to make a collar today are the guys who are looking for the overtime.
6. A leather-covered roll made to fit over the lower part of the neck of a horse or other draught animal, forming that part of the harness through which the power of drawing is directly exerted; with qualification, as breast collar, the term is extended to parts of the harness serving the same purpose, but not fitted round the neck.
c1440Promp. Parv. 87 Coller of horsys, epiphium. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 123 For vj drawing colers. 1532Fitzherb. Husb. §5 Both his hombers or collers, holmes whyted, tresses, swyngletrees, and togwith. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 62. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 339/2 The Collar..made of Canvis and Leather stufed with straw or wooll. 1801W. Felton Carriages II. 169 The absurdity prevails of using breast-collars to heavy four-wheeled carriages, and the neck-collar to light two-wheeled carriages. 1855F. E. Smedley H. Coverdale iv. 19 The mare..took well to collar at starting, and kept it up steadily. 1868Dickens Dr. Marigold 138 (Hoppe) The high road ascends..till it comes in sight of Cumner. Every step against the collar, yet so gradual is the ascent that, etc. 1885Times (weekly ed.) 2 Oct. 15/3 A tedious and stiff pull against the collar.
†7. A shoulder-belt fitted with little loops, in which cartridges were suspended; a bandoleer in the earlier sense. Obs.
1672Chas. II. Warrant 2 Apr., One matchlocke musquet, with a collar of bandaliero. 1677Ld. Orrery Art of War 31 If one Bandaleer take Fire, all the rest do in that Collar.
8. a. fig. (from 4–6.) Also phrases: † to slip (the) collar: to escape from restraint; to draw back from a task or undertaking: also † to shrink collar. out of (or in) collar: out of (or in) work or regular employment. against the collar: entailing continuous exertion or hard strain, as when a horse presses against the collar in pulling a heavy load or in going up a hill (cf. sense 6); cf. collar-work. to feel (someone's) collar: to arrest; freq. pass., to have one's collar felt (Criminals' slang).
1470J. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 461. II. 339, I shall do as well as I may for fawt of monye tyll I spek with yow. I have many collars on, as I shall tell yow when I come. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxvi. 3 The harde and stif⁓necked (whiche woold fayne slip their neckes out of his coler). 1580North Plutarch (1676) 707 He began a little to rowze himself, and to lift up his head: but he shrunk collar again soon after, because the Athenians would not rise. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 269 The Ape..would have slipt the coller handsomly. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. (1839) 540 Slily slip off the collar of their civil subjection. c1677Marvell Growth Popery 34 When we were engaged in a War, the Dutch would likely slip Collar, leave us in the War. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 114 It obliged sovereigns to submit to the soft collar of social esteem. 1855A. Manning Old Chelsea Bun-house vii. 108 Your gentler Birth and Bringing-up..makes the Collar so hard to wear. 1862All Y. Round 13 Sept. 12 Lor' bless you, I've known a leading man, out of collar, say ‘sir’ to Joey. 1950P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 49 To ‘get your collar felt (or touched)’ is to be arrested or stopped by the police. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, you Bastard 272 The Rubber Heels would have felt his collar too when the business was done. 1985Daily Tel. 11 July 14/3 Will old-timers be able to play dominoes or cribbage without the risk of having their collars felt?
b. In the following some commentators take it as ‘the hangman's halter’, comparing 2 Hen. IV, v. v. 92: but?
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. i. 6 While you liue, draw your necke out o'th Collar.
†9. The collar-bone. Obs. rare.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 35 Þe heroun is slayn, as have I sene..Þenne under þo wynge þo skyn þou cralle, Pyt in þo bylle at coler þou schalle.
II. Transferred and technical senses.
10. An encompassing and restraining band or strap.
1507Louth (Lincolnsh.) Churchw. Acc. (MS.), Paid Codder makyng bell colars xd. 1563Stow Mem. in Three 15th C. Chron. (Camden) 125 Anno 1563, y⊇ xxx of July..was one whipt on a sckaffold..his neke, his hands, and fett made faste to a stake a bove y⊇ sayd skafold with kolars of iron. 1593Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 34 Item given for a bell coller..xijd. 1864Boutell Heraldry xxxii. 469 When there are two shields accolées, a Collar may encircle them both. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 106 The nerve-system consists of supra-oesophageal and of ventrally-placed ganglia, connected with each other so as to form a collar round the oesophagus.
11. a. Mech. A ring, circle, flange, or perforated disk, surrounding a rod, shaft, pipe, etc., for restraining lateral motion; forming a steam-, or water-tight joint, and the like; a short piece of pipe serving as a connexion between two pipes, etc.
(With numerous special applications in different trades and different departments of mechanism.)
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 50 The motion of the Coller about the Main-spindle allows it; but were the..Coller fixt, it could not move at all. 1715Desaguliers in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 441, I fix'd each End of it into a triangular Collar of Tin. 1794[see collar-bolt in 21]. 1849Weale Dict. Terms, Collar, a plate of metal screwed down upon the stuffing-box of a steam-engine, with a hole to allow the piston-rod to pass through. 1859Rankine Steam Eng. §125 The friction between a plunger and its collar. 1881Mechanic 518 Sometimes the drain pipes are laid with collars..that is, short pieces of piping sufficiently large to receive the ends of two pipes, thus keeping them firmly in their place. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 187 A collar with a hole in the middle, of a size to slip freely over the steel rod.
b. Turning. ‘A ring inserted in the puppet for holding the end of the mandril next the chuck’ (Weale Dict. Terms).
1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. 199 Hollow Maundrels are also used in Collers that open not with a Joynt. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metals II. 103 An iron mandrel, the ends of which run in collars or journeys.
c. Coining. A metal ring which encloses the blank or planchet, and serves to prevent it from spreading when stamped, as well as to impress the milling (or, if required, a legend) on its edge.
1826[implied in verb]. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 253/1 The letters were impressed upon the edge by including the blanks in a collar which contained the legend..The metal, thus placed, being struck with the die, expanded under it, and received the form of whatever was engraven on the inside of the collar. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 349 s.v. Mint, The blow, which is estimated at 40 tons, forces the metal into every engraved part of the collar and dies. 1876Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. xix. 247 The Greek moneyers did not understand the principle of the collar, by which an accurate circle is obtained in modern times.
12. Naut.
a. ‘A rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or dead-eye seized in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part.’
b. ‘An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay to go over the mast-head.’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.)
c. (See quot. 1753).
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 14 The tackles, the mison stay, the collers, the maine shrouds and chaines. 1627― Seaman's Gram. v. 18 The maine Masts stay is made fast by a Lannier to a Coller, which is a great Rope that comes about the head and Boulspret, the other end to the head of the maine Mast. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 332 The Marquis..broke the Collar of the Fore-stay. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., There is also a collar, or garland, about the main mast head, which is a rope wound about there, to save the shrouds from galling. 1835Sir J. Ross N.W. Pass. ix. 126 A collar and bits for a new bow⁓sprit. 1878W. C. Russell Wreck Grosvenor xvii, The collar of the mainstay.
13. Of a plough (see quot.).
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Collar of the plough, a term used by our farmers to express a ring of iron, which is fixed to the middle of the beam, and serves to receive the ends of two chains, the lower one called the tow chain, and the upper one called the bridle chain..These chains, by means of this collar, and their other insertions, serve to join the head and the tail of the plough together.
14. Mining. The timbering round a shaft's mouth.
1849Weale Dict. Terms, Collar of a shaft, the timber and boarding used to secure the uppermost part of a shaft in loose rubble from falling in. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss., Collar, boards near the surface for securing the shaft of a mine.
15. Arch.
a. = collarino.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Cincture, That at bottom is peculiarly called apophyge; as if the pillar took its flight hence: and that at top, colarin, or collar. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Collar, or Colarino..is another name for the astragal of a column.
b. Short for collar-beam.
1856–8Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. I. 113 Collar, or Collar-Beam, called ‘choler’ by early English writers on architecture..In old roofs the collar is frequently framed into the rafters. 1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd I. xxii. 240 The dusky, filmed, chestnut roof, braced and tied in by huge collars, curves, and diagonals. 1876Gwilt Archit. §2052 When the latter was the case, a second collar was generally introduced above the first.
16. Angling. An arrangement by which several artificial flies are attached to one line in fly-fishing.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxxvi, He dropped his collar of flies lightly on the water, each cast covering another five feet of the dimpling surface. Ibid. He went off..with two yards of my collar and a couple of first-rate flies.
17. Zool.
a. A band of a distinct colour or texture round the neck of an animal.
1664Pepys Diary 25 Apr., A bird..black the greatest part, with the finest collar of white about the neck. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 82 A variety of the Daw..having a white collar round its neck. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia IV. 173 The most distinguishing mark of the species [the Collared Aï] is a large black collar which completely surrounds the neck.
b. In Insects: The pro-thorax which bears the first pair of legs; sometimes limited to the posterior part of this when it forms a ring-like anterior border to the meso-thorax, as in Hymenoptera.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvii. (1828) IV. 387 The existence of the collar in the Trichoptera. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 157 The prothorax is ring-like and is hence often termed ‘collar’.
c. In Molluscs: A thickened muscular and glandular border of the mantle.
1847in Craig. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 52 (Edible Snail) In the completion of the act of forcing the animal's body out of the shell, the ‘collar’ takes a share.
d. A rim surrounding the flagellum or cilium of the cell in various lower animal forms.
1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 252 The ampullæ [of a sponge] are lined by cylindrical granular endoderm cells—about sixty to each ampulla—with a basal nucleus, single cilium surrounded by a hyaline protoplasmic collar. Ibid. 847 Choanoflagellata..[are] distinguished by..the possession of a single fine flagellum, implanted..within an area surrounded by a clear funnel-shaped collar of protoplasm.
18. Bot.
a. ‘The ring upon the stipe of an agaric.’
b. ‘The point of junction between the radicle and the plumule’ (Treas. Bot.).
1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Collum, The point of departure of the ascending and descending axes, that is to say, of the root and stem, which is often called the collar. 1881Gardener's Chron. XVI. 721 They appear to attack the collar of the plant, and at this position get inside.
c. The area of junction between the stem and root of a tree. Also attrib.
1859Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1857–8 III. 344 The ravages of this insect may be prevented by surrounding the collar of the trees, early in June with leached ashes. Ibid. 465 Care should be taken not to set the trees too deep. It is better that the collar should be considerably above, rather than below the level of the lawn. 1887Hardy Woodlanders xix, With a small bill-hook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss. 1954A. G. L. Hellyer Encycl. Garden Work 57/1 The damping-off disease which attacks seedlings is really a form of collar rot.
19. Cookery.
†a. The neck-piece (of brawn). Obs.
b. A piece of meat (esp. brawn), a fish, etc., tied up in a roll or coil.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. i, What do you say to a collar of brawn, cut down Beneath the souse? 1617Minsheu Ductor, Collar, or necke of brawne..because it is onely the necke of a Boare. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 115 He intends to send you a whole brawn in collers. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxix. (1689) 266 You may serve it [eel] either in collars or in round slices. 1796H. Glasse Cookery xviii. 290 Lay..salt over the salmon; so roll it up into a collar, and bind it with broad tape. 1814Byron Let. to Moore 9 Apr., A collar of brawn which I swallowed for supper.
†c. A roll or bundle. Obs.
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 49 A very long Root, like a small Cord, which is brought from New Spain in Collars, or long Bundles.
d. The head of foam on a glass of beer.
1945Salt 26 Feb. 14/2, I..then called for a couple without collars. 1945J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xxi. 90 Doc opened a bottle and poured gently into a glass, holding it at an angle so that very little collar rose to the top.
20. Wrestling. A manœuvre in which the opponent is tackled by the neck; cf. collar v. 3.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 410 As though a man might not as easily overthrow this challenger with his owne collers here. c1600Norden Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728) 29 The first [wrestling] is acted in two sortes, by Holdster (as they call it) and by the Coller. 1873Slang Dict., Collar and elbow, a term for a peculiar style of wrestling—the Cornwall and Devon style.
21. Comb. collar-box; collar-awl, a form of awl used in sewing horses' collars, etc.; collar-band, a band serving as a collar (cf. band n.2 4); also, the band to which the collar is attached; the band forming the collar of a woman's dress; collar bearing, a bearing on a shaft, adapted for taking the end thrust of the shaft; collar-bird, a species of Bower-bird; collar-block, a block on which a horse collar is shaped; collar-bolt, a bolt with a collar or ring; collar-brace (see quot.); collar-cell, a cell with a collar (cf. 17 d); collar-check (see quot.); collar-dresser, one who starches and irons collars; collar facing (see facing vbl. n. 4); collar-gall, a wound produced (on a horse) by the rubbing of the collar; so collar-galled ppl. adj.; collar gauge (see quot.); collar-harness, harness with a neck-collar, as distinct from that with a breast-collar; collar-launder, a receptacle fixed, like a collar, on the top of the delivery pipe of a pump, to receive the water before its discharge into the conduit: see launder; collar-like a., resembling a collar, ring-like; † collar-link, a part of the plough belonging to the collar (cf. 13); collar-nail, a nail with a projecting collar, used in blind-soling shoes; collar-plate (see quot.); † collar-pleat, ? a pleat or fold produced by the collar; collar pore Zool., a tube or pore connecting the cavity of the collar of Balanoglossus with the first gill-slit; collar-proud a. (dial.), restive when in harness, said of a horse; † collar-shirt (see quot.); † collar-spot, a mark made by a collar; collar stud, a stud used to fasten a detachable collar to a shirt; collar-tool, a blacksmith's tool for making collars on rods, bolts, etc.; collar-worn a., hurt or strained by the collar (as a horse).
1684Satyr agst. Commw. 1 Here Men with swinging Trowsers awe, And divine *collar-bands give law. 1702Addison Dial. Medals (1727) 17 Of the Ruff and Collar⁓band. 18..Dickens Househ. Words (Hoppe), His neat collar-band turned over evenly all round the cravat. 1884Myra's Jrnl. Dress & Fashion 1 Aug. 367/2 The plain collar band is of velvet. 1907Daily Chron. 21 Jan. 8/1 The yoke and high collar-band in the gown..are fashioned of ermine.
1892D. A. Low Machine Draw. 121 The weight of the shaft is supported by a *collar bearing.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 104 *Collar-bolt, a bolt with a shoulder or collar in the middle and double-screwed ends, which serves to fix one thing upon another, that either may be separately taken away without displacing the other.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xv, My bandbox..and my *collar-box.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 106 A double and single *collar-brace ring. Ibid. I. 211 Collar braces, are those that go round the perch or crane..to check the motion [of the body of a carriage] side⁓ways.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Collar-check, a rough cross-barred woollen material for saddlery purposes, made either broad or narrow.
1890Daily News 28 Jan. 7/6 The child, the step-daughter of a *collar-dresser.
1899Westm. Gaz. 27 July 3/1 A *collar facing of white silk.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2381/4 An Iron grey Gelding..3 or 4 *Collar-Galls on his Shoulder. 1684Ibid. No. 1958/4 Her off Shoulder Coller gald.
1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin. 102 Cylindrical gauge, a gauge composed of two pieces.., the plug gauge being inserted into a bored hole and the *collar gauge being slid over the spindle.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xx. (1870) 471 Are we to suppose that each island is surrounded by a *collar-like submarine ledge of rock?
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Plough, Particular parts of a plough..the *Collar Links, the plough pillow.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. 594 *Collar⁓plate, an auxiliary puppet, or midway rest in a lathe for turning long pieces.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4085/4 A Black Horse, with..white Hairs on the *Collar-pleat.
1897Parker & Haswell Text-bk. Zool. II. 2 The collar cavity communicates with the exterior by a pair of *collar pores—ciliated tubes leading into the first gill-slit or first gill-pouch.
1884Chesh. Gloss., *Collar-proud, restive.
1832Regul. Instr. Cavalry ii. 40 The *collar-rein or chain is unfastened.
c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Numms, a Sham, or *Collar-Shirt, to hide the t'other when Dirty.
1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4040/4 A bright bay Nag..with..some sign of *Collar spots upon his Shoulders.
1873F. W. Robinson Little Kate Kirby I. i. xiv. 183 A diamond *collar-stud. 1885Chambers's Jrnl. II. 320/1, I suppose he has lost his collar-stud again. 1906Daily Chron. 28 May 6/4 My collar-stud ran away and hid itself with great success.
1882Bp. of Carlisle in Macm. Mag. XLV. 464 Horses..suffering from a *collarworn shoulder.
▪ II. collar, v.|ˈkɒlə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
1. a. trans. To put a collar on; to fetter or fasten with a collar; to surround as with a collar.
1601Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 135 For..new collering the ministers surpcloth. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 440 The said bull is then..coller'd and roap't, and so brought to the Bull-ring in the high-street. 1806J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 21 Trees New planted..each to a post Fast-collared, culprit like. 1847–74Halliwell, To collar the mag, to throw the coit with such precision as to surround the plug. 1865[see collaring vbl. n.].
b. Coining. To stamp a coin in a collar.
1826E. Hawkins Anglo-Fr. Coinage (1830) 148 From want of what is called collaring.
2. To put the collar on (a horse), esp. for the first time; hence fig. to break in to work. dial.
1692[see collaring]. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman II. ii. 48, I collar [my own children] (as the country term is) as early as possible; that is, I bring them up to work as soon as they are able to do anything, and continue so doing, the better to fit the back to the burthen. 1884Chesh. Gloss., Collar, to harness, or put the collar on, a colt for the first time. Used also for bringing up a child to work early.
3. Wrestling. (intr.) To lay hold on the opponent's collar or neck. Also fig.
a1555Ridley Wks. (1843) 146 Ye know the deepness of Satan, being an old soldier, and you have collared with him ere now. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 395 The wrestlers, which contended to strike those with whom they were collered. 1661Sir A. Haslerig's Last Will & Test. Supp. 6 He grew so familiar with Oliver, as he would not stick by way of Argument to coller with him. 1708–15Kersey, Collar (in Wrestling) is to fix, or hold on the Adversary's Collar.
4. trans. To seize or take hold of (a person) by the collar; more loosely: To capture. In Football: To stop an opponent who is running with the ball.
1613Day Festivals (1615) 126 Collering others by the Necke with a Quinsie. 1713Steele Guardian No. 84 If you advised him not to collar any man but one who knows what he means. 1762Gentl. Mag. 192 His Lordship collared the footman who threw it. 1833Marryat P. Simple xviii, He was collared by two French soldiers, and dragged back into the battery.
5. slang. To lay hold of, take or get possession of, appropriate, master. spec. in Cricket, of a batsman: (a) to get the better of (the bowler); (b) to score off (the bowling) at will.
c1700Street Robberies Consid., Collar the Cole, lay hold on the money. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xv, Another gentleman comes and collars that glass of punch. 1859All Y. Round No. 13. 306 We were ‘well in’: we had collared the bowling. 1883Cricket 3 May 66/2 The bowlers, in this innings, were never once ‘collared’. 1888Pall Mall G. 6 Jan. 6/1 The uncontested seats which were ‘collared’ last time by Liberal Unionists. 1891W. G. Grace Cricket ii. 40 Against Pilch, and one or two others who collared him at times, he would try just another over.
6. Cookery.
a. ‘To roll up (a piece of meat, a fish, etc.) and bind it hard and close with a string’ (J.);
b. to cut up and press into a roll (see collared 4).
c1670MS. Cookery Bk., To Coller Pigg. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. ii. 149 To collar a Breast of Veal. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 43 To collar Mackarel. Ibid. 303 To collar Beef.
▪ III. collar
obs. f. choler, dial. f. collow. |