goose-neckn.

1688 S. Sewall Diary 29 Nov. (1973) I. 185 About 12 at night..the whipstaf is somehow loosed from the Gooseneck.

1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 15 The tiller was unshipped and the goose-neck shifted.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Goose-neck, a sort of iron hook fitted on the inner end of a boom, and introduced into a clamp of iron, or eye-bolt, which encircles the mast, or is fitted to some other place in the ship, so that it may be unhooked at pleasure.

1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. v. 40 He perceived the half of a maintop-sail yard..lying on the goose-necks.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Goose-neck, a curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, a davit.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 103 Goose neck, a ventilating cowl bent over to keep out water.

1843 J. A. Ransome Implem. Agric. 52 A collar chain..having what is technically termed a ‘goose neck’ passing through one of its links, which is made circular for its admission.

1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) iv. 77 The pipe connecting the gooseneck and worm.

1870 A. Cone & W. R. Johns Petrolia xi. 164 A conducting tube, called a ‘goose-neck’, which it resembled in shape.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Goose-neck..a nozzle having a universal-joint connection to the stand-pipe on a fire-engine.

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Goose Neck, the bent rod by which the tap hole in a casting ladle is opened and closed.

1929 P. Wilson & G. W. Webb Mod. Gramophones 125 Immediately after the war a new type of tone-arm with a ‘trombone goose-neck’..was introduced.

1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. July 49/1 Gooseneck, (1) a strong wood bar connecting two logging trucks; (2) a curved iron at the bottom of a slide to check the speed of moving logs.

1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 113/2 Goose-neck, a bent air~duct or penstock that is fire-brick lined and joins the bustle-pipe to the belly pipe of a blast furnace. It conveys the hot blast to the tuyères.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 284 Goose-neck, a twisted stick with two sharp points to run into the thatch, to prevent the wind blowing it up.

1884 in Cassell

1940 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate 155 The Woods was probably the first string binder tried here. It was known as the ‘goose-neck’ binder because it had a long circular arm resembling the neck of a goose, which threw the sheaves away.

1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 23/2 Vases with goose-neck handles were peculiar to the [Bilston] factory.

1929 M. Lief Hangover iii. 31 Books and magazines lay piled up on a library table alongside his typewriter and a gooseneck lamp.

1969 J. Ross Dead at First Hand ii. 20 The pool of light cast by the gooseneck lamp on his desk.