bullneck

[bool-nek]

noun

1. the leather made from the hide of the neck of a bull.

2. the name applied to various ducks, including the ring-necked duck, the ruddy duck, and the canvasback.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bullneck¹

bull ¹ + neck

Example Sentences

Such minor-league larruping at one time placed a $200,000 price tag around Stout Steve's bullneck, had won him four major-league tries before this year's with the Tigers.

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But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and, with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bullneck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.

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