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  • noun Alternative form of neckbrace.

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Examples

  • I even read that for small children, who had a hard time holding still, they have these neck-brace things to hold them in place for he picture!

    The Electric Edwardians 2008

  • SA Defence Force chief Gen Kat Liebenberg, who was seated outside the dock wearing a neck-brace.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The winchman dropped down, clapped a neck-brace on the casualty, then called back the helicopter.

    YBW News 2009

  • An old woman whose husband abandoned her is in a neck-brace.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I bet ya the next time you see him he'll be wearing a neck-brace, casts on both legs and more gauze-tape than King Tutankhamun

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • For one thing it gives me a headache, but mostly my hair is so short now I just look like I lost my neck-brace and I can't keep my head from falling forward.

    The Reluctant Optimist 2009

  • (If they are registered with a disability, wheelchair / neck-brace adjustment factor may be waived)

    Annie's Inferno Scott Jutte 2008

  • The 20 people in the house were then all forced outside at gunpoint, with two of the soldiers pulling aside Ahmad's elder brother, 32 year old Mohammad who wears a neck-brace due to a recent car crash.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • The 20 people in the house were then all forced outside at gunpoint, with two of the soldiers pulling aside Ahmad's elder brother, 32 year old Mohammad who wears a neck-brace due to a recent car crash.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • A helm and neck-brace werent much help in protecting from the cold; the wind ripped gleefully down the Weaponsmasters collar and the sudden chill brought back memories of long patrols in the lonely hills of Karse in weather worse than this, when he would wake cold, patrol until he and his men were warm only where their bodies were in contact with their horses hides, then gather around smoking fires where you warmed little bits of yourself, while the rest stayed achingly cold.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

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