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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 351 Nape of an hedde, Occiput, cervix.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Naupe of the heed, canneau de col, la fossette de la teste.

1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) C vij Kepe the nape of thy necke from colde.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 119 It helpeth al the infirmities incident to the nape of the neck.

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 44 If we put the index of our Hand about the pit of the hinder part of the head, or nape of the neck.

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers iv. i. 34 (stage direct.) She strikes him with her Fan, and thrusts him out by the Nape of the Neck, and Exit.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 196 As one catches up a dog by the nape of his neck.

1775 E. Thompson Fair Quaker (ed. 2) ii. ii. 17 As I was seizing one of them by the nape of the neck..he up't with an hanger.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. lii. 287 A..stone which fell on the nape of his neck.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xiii. 230 The harpoon was sticking in the nape of the neck.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xx. 368 On the nape of her neck, her dark cropped hair ended in a little triangle that pointed downwards along the spine.

1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column ii. ix. 149 She combed out my plaits and coiled my hair at the nape of my neck.

1991 G. Greer Change v. 135 Receptive she-cats present the nape of the neck to ingratiate themselves with the tom.