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Gooseneck definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOOSENECK, n. goos'neck. In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)

Merriam Webster's

noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1688 1. something (as a flexible jointed metal pipe) curved like the neck of a goose or U-shaped 2. a truck trailer (as for transporting livestock) with a projecting front end designed to attach to the bed of a pickup truck • goosenecked adjective