单词 | neck-bone |
释义 | neck-bonen. Originally: the part of the spine in the neck; the cervical spine. Later also: each of the individual bones of this part of the spine; a cervical vertebra. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > neck bone > [noun] swire-bonec825 neckc1275 cannel-bonea1325 neck-bonec1330 nuke-bone1562 halse-bone1794 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1480 (MED) Tristrem rauȝt his brain And brak his nek bon. c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 669 An hand hym smoot vpon the nekke boon. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 3257 (MED) Sir Ywain..strake his nek-bane right insonder. a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) 5871 (MED) Knyghttes in the feld lay strewed, There neke bonys in sundere hewed. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Astragalus In Homere, it is taken for the neckebone, where it ioygneth to the backebone. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxvi. 154 The rowells of the neckbone, with their snaggs hinder that inclination. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The neck-bone, l'os du gaujon. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses x. 126 So to th' earth he headlong fell, And broke his Neck-bone. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 32. ¶2 Alexander the Great wore his Head a little o'er the left Shoulder; and then not a Soul stirr'd out till he had adjusted his Neck Bone. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 92 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 560 Past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Chairlie brak's neck-bane. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xx. 83 Each..seem'd to be revers'd At the neck-bone, so that the countenance Was from the reins averted. 1831 W. Youatt Horse ix. 154 It is the base of the column of neck-bones. 1869 Ladies' Repository June 440/2 Three Mavite..cut him [sc. Dr. Livingstone] down with a blow from a battle-ax which severed the neck-bone. 1917 Sci. Monthly Jan. 83 Just two weeks after the first discovery, the scraper uncovered the neck bone of an animal much larger than a horse. 1963 T. Merton Emblems Season of Fury 24 Between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ The living neck bone is set apart from flesh! 1998 Zest Sept. 56/1 Cervical osteoarthritis (arthritis in the neck bones). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330 |
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