gooseneck
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gooseneck
- /ˈɡusˌnɛk/ US
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From goose + neck.
noun goosenecks
- Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps. A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.
- The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other. The port-brace, and immediately afterwards the starboard-brace, of the crojack-yard--carried away. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see. Next, the gooseneck
- Ellipsis of gooseneck barnacle
- Ellipsis of gooseneck loosestrife
verb goosenecks · goosenecking · goosenecked
- To seal (a bag) securely by twisting, folding, and cinching or taping.
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noun anything shaped like a goose's neck
| Deutsch | Schwanenhals |
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noun swivel connection on a sailboat for the boom to attach to the mast
| Français | vit-de-mulet |
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| Deutsch | Lümmelbeschlag, Lümmel |
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@misc{gooseneck_2026,
title = {gooseneck},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gooseneck},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
