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ˈlong-neck
†1. An earthenware retort or still with a long neck. Obs.
1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. cxii. 183 Take good Copperas..beat it to powder, put it in long necks, lute fast, and draw it with judgement. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. v. 90. 1734 P. Shaw Chem. Lect. (1755) 432 This Matter may now be put into a well coated Long-Neck, and worked with care in a Reverberatory Furnace. 1763W. Lewis Comm. Phil. Techn. 13 Distillation in coated glass retorts, earthen retorts, or longnecks.
2. a. A local name for birds having a long neck, e.g. the bittern, the heron, the pin-tailed duck.
1864Atkinson Prov. Names Birds, Long-neck,..Common Bittern. Botarus stellaris. 1882Field Naturalist 44 Locally, the heron is called ‘crane’ or ‘long-neck’. 1890Century Dict. (citing G. Trumbull 1888), Longneck, the pintail duck, Dafila acuta.
b. In full, long-neck clam. An elongated, thin-shelled clam, Mya arenaria, found on the eastern coast of North America; = long clam (long a.1 A. 18 b).
1905Bull N.Y. State Mus. No. 71. 22 The soft or long-neck clam, Mya, is capable of locomotion only when very small. 1910J. L. Kellogg Shell-Fish Industries 281 Mya, in different localities, is known as the clam, the soft clam, the long neck, long clam, squirt clam. 1923D. K. Tressler Marine Products of Commerce 533 Mya arenaria commonly called soft clam, long clam, long neck..is found from South Carolina to the Arctic Ocean. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 200 File upon file, the beds of long-neck clams.
▸ colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.). A bottle with a long, narrow neck; spec. a beer bottle with a capacity (typically) of 330 ml. Freq. attrib. in long-neck beer.
[1907Dial. Notes 3 246 Long-necker, round quart whiskey-bottle.] 1969L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 74 Long neck, a bottle of whiskey. 1976N.Y. Times 25 Feb. 39/1 It is a bit like the tug of war between the crystal wine glass set and the long-neck beer bottle set. 1984M. A. Jarman in Dancing nightly in Tavern 6 The bored cowhands..sipping longnecks and gazing at The Waltons or fuckflicks from the satellite dish. 1991Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Feb. 21/3 Power Brewing yesterday unveiled a 345ml longneck stubby as part of a move to capture a larger slice of the restaurant and nightclub market. 2000J. Grisham Brethren 152 You can't lay out at Pete's every night, drinking cheap longnecks with coeds. |