1647 N. Ward 65 When a kingdome is broken just in the neck joynt.
1708 J. Philips ii. 488 The fall Luxt his neck-joint.
1849 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante xxx. 362 Fixed its tusks on his neck-joint.
1926 D. H. Lawrence vii. 55 It is a hard thing to hack off the head of such a giant, and he cannot find the neck joint.
1997 4 Jan. 20/1 Some 15 per cent of people with acute whiplash injury suffer..chronic pain in certain neck joints.