neck-collarn.
/ˈnɛkˌkɒlə/, U.S. /ˈnɛkˌkɑlər/ 1. A collar worn by a person. In quot. 1821 figurative: a hangman's noose. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar
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band-collar1820
throat band1828
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the neck
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1482 MS Court Rolls Long Bennington, Lincs. (MED) Theft of 2 nekcolers.
1501 Will of A. Clutton in J. R. H. Weaver & A. Beardwood Some Oxfordshire Wills (1958) 76 My best kyrtill, my best kerchif, a necband, one nek coler.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Neccoller for a woman, gorgias.
1546 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 245 One neccoller wroght withe golde.
1821 W. Scott Pirate III. iv. 81 Are you avised what death he died of?..for I have heard that it was of a tight neck-collar—a hempen fever, or the like.
1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xix. 326 Many of them [sc. captives] were confined to a long iron bar, by neck-collars.
1934 Man 34 172 Besides the chains there were three pairs of manacles.., staple and neck collar.
1991 Backpacker Dec. 51/1 A removable, toasty-warm neck collar.., and a side zip that actually doesn't snag.
2.
a. A collar used in leading, tethering, or harnessing an animal; esp. that part of the harness of a draught horse that fits round the base of the neck.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar
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1549 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 570 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Nekcollers for horse drought, xliij.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (1801) II. 139 The Neck Collar is a padded collar made to fit and sit easy round the horse's neck.
1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show 2 A neck collar for..Farm Harness..has the draft-hook attached, and requires no hames.
1873 Harper's Mag. Jan. 169/2 The mode of attaching them is by leather traces, or thongs, fastened to a neck collar, and they [sc. Esquimaux dogs] are managed by the driver's whip and voice.
1981 K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry Gloss. 218/1 An alternative to a neck collar for a horse. The breast collar is a wide horizontal strap around the lower part of the neck to which traces are attached for traction.
1990 C. Wheater & A. Smyth Here's Health (BNC) 112 The sows..are often tethered to the ground by a girth strap or an iron neck collar.
b. A collar placed round the neck of an animal as part of a research programme, usually to aid identification.
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1966 Science 18 Mar. 1403/1 Pregnant rats..have been prevented from licking their ventral surfaces by neck collars.
1969 Ecology 50 930/2 Blackbirds..are usually the most common passerine birds in their habitats, the nests are easily found, food samples are easily obtained with neck collars of pipe cleaners, [etc.].
1978 Amer. Midland Naturalist 100 24 Each..transmitter and neck collar unit weighed 1.9 g,..only about 9–30 % of that [sc. weight] gained by the pregnant vole.
1992 Bird Watching Jan. 24/1 The Lesser White-front wore a blue neck collar which identified it as one of the birds released by researchers in Finland as part of a re-introduction programme.
3. A natural band or ring of contrasting colour on the neck of an animal, esp. a bird; = collar n. 17.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > band or stripe > round neck
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1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. iv. 59 A broad neck-collar of vivid crimson [on the butterfly Ornithoptera brookeana].
1950 Amer. Naturalist 84 284 These birds had a pugnacious disposition and a hoarse undulating coo, but the neck collar was much more like that of the dove.
1984 Q. Rev. Biol. 59 322/2 The Arctic Skua is conspicuously polymorphic: the pale morph is white on breast, belly and neck; the intermediate has a pale neck collar but brown belly.
2001 People (Electronic ed.) 14 May 41 They [sc. turtle doves] are very striking with their..black and white-striped neck collars and bright orange eyes.
4. An advertising or branding label placed round the neck of a bottle.
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1983 Drug Topics 16 May 71/3 (caption) Neck-collar coupon publicizes rebate for Boots' brand of ibuprofen, Rufen.
1986 Marketing Week 29 Aug. 42/4 It [sc. the wine] is made with 100 per cent Moscato Bianco grapes and carries the Consorzio neck collar.
1998 Grocer 22 Aug. 63/4 Caxton Tower Wines is running a South African safari neck collar promotion on its Long Mountain wine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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