Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender curved object or part, such as the flexible shaft of a type of desk lamp.
- noun Nautical A pivoting connector by which the boom is attached to the mast on many sailboats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A sort of iron hook fitted to the inner end of a yard or boom, for temporary attachment to a clamp of iron or an eye-bolt, A davit.
- noun In machinery, a pipe shaped like the letter S; a flexible coupling.
- noun A nozle with a universal joint used on a fire-engine stand-pipe
- noun In lumbering: A wooden bar used to couple two logging-trucks. Also called
rooster . - noun The point of draft on a logging-sled: it consists of a curved iron hook bolted to the roll. Also called
draw-hook - noun A curved iron hook driven into the bottom of a slide to check the speed of descending logs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything with a
slender curved shape, resembling theneck of agoose , such as the shaft of some lamps. - noun nautical The swivel connection on a
sailboat located near the bottom of themast that theboom attaches to. When a sailboat performs atack or ajibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)
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Examples
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We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm.
Chapter 2 1913
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We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm.
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We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm.
Chapter 2 1911
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Inside of the pail is a kneading prong _c_, in the shape of a gooseneck, that is revolved by turning the handle _d_.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast.
Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out James Gurney 2009
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Wind damage during early kernel development is seldom serious, even though the plants may be knocked almost flat, since they still have the ability to "gooseneck" themselves (curve up) into a nearly vertical position.
Chapter 7 1981
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This makes embracing the 'gooseneck' thing that much more complicated for me. ...
ESPN.com - TrueHoop Henry Abbott 2010
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Just in case you need to make plenty of video calls under low light conditions, the Kensington Video Chat Light might just do the trick, requiring a single USB port to power it alongside a flexible gooseneck which is sturdy yet pliable at the asme time.
Ubergizmo 2009
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Just some of what he's serving up today: "One completely random note: the 'gooseneck' and '3-3-0' gestures LeBron does have been called satanist gestures.
ESPN.com - TrueHoop Henry Abbott 2010
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Next, the gooseneck of the truss, on which it pivoted, smashed away.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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