necked, a.
(nɛkt)
[f. neck n.1]
1. Having a neck like something specified.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans F iv b, A Grehounde shulde be heded like a Snake, and necked like a Drake. a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 519 She was nothynge plesant; Necked lyke an olyfant. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 205 The one is called of the æthyopians, the Nabis, necked like an horse. 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 128 A model of grace and symmetry, necked and crested like an Arabian. |
2. In Combs., as long-necked, narrow-necked, short-necked, stiff-necked, etc. (see the first element).
3. Having a neck.
| 1841 E. Newman Hist. Insects iv. v. 260 Necked capricorn-beetles, or Lepturites. 1864 Gosse in Gd. Words Dec. 891/2 Necked Barnacles, so long believed..to be legitimately descended from..a certain species of goose. 1956 R. J. C. Atkinson Stonehenge v. 154 Two main groups of population, distinguished by the forms of their pottery as the Bell-Beaker and Necked-Beaker cultures. Ibid., The Necked-Beaker culture..is an indigenous development in England. 1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. XLVII. 174 The latter comprised sherds of two pots—part of the body of a probable rusticated beaker and part of the base of a beaker of indeterminate type—probably a necked variety. 1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 54/3 The Taslan process feeds a filament into a rapidly moving airstream at the necked region of a nozzle. |
4. [perh. f. neck v.1 6.] Reduced in width as a result of having been subjected to tension.
| 1959 C. E. Birchenall Physical Metall. vi. 136 Af is the cross-sectional area in the necked region. 1964 R. E. Reed-Hill Physical Metall. Princ. xviii. 555 Fracture begins at the center of the necked region on a plane that is macroscopically normal to the applied tensile-stress axis. |