necking
Informal. kissing, caressing, and other sexual activity between partners that does not involve stimulation of the genitals or sexual intercourse.
Architecture.
a molding or group of moldings between the projecting part of a capital of a column and the shaft.
Origin of necking
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How to use necking in a sentence
The neckings are worked with the capitals, and enriched by 'egg-and-dart' pointing upwards.
Byzantine Churches in Constantinople | Alexander Van MillingenThe neckings below the capitals are wrought on the shaft itself.
Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages | George Edmund Street
British Dictionary definitions for necking
/ (ˈnɛkɪŋ) /
informal the activity of kissing and embracing passionately
Also called: gorgerin architect one or more mouldings at the top of a column between the shaft and the capital
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