ewe-neckn.
A thin hollow neck (in a horse).
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ewe-neck1820
1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 86 A broken-down plough horse..with a ewe neck and hammer head.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 3) 322 Between the two extremes of the ewe-neck and its opposite there are many degrees.
Derivatives
ewe-necked adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of neck
withy-cragged1607
ewe-necked1704
yo-necked1836
1704 London Gaz. No. 45. 18/4 A grey Mare..Ewe-Neck'd.
1840 R. H. Barham Grey Dolphin in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 86 His dapple-grey steed..was a little ewe-necked.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 298 Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Yowe neck't, the arch of the neck bending downwards.
1878 G. Murray Russians of To-day 15 Mounted upon yeo-necked galloways.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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