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noun The part of a garment that encircles the neck.
noun A necklace.
noun A restraining or identifying band of leather, metal, or plastic put around the neck of an animal.

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Something worn about the neck, whether for restraint, convenience, or ornament. Specifically— A band, usually of iron, worn by prisoners or slaves as a means of restraint or a badge of servitude. A grazing iron collar grinds my neck. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. In armor, a defense of mail or plate for the neck. An ornamental and symbolic chain or necklace formerly worn by knights and gentlemen as a badge of adherence. It is still used as one of the insignia of an honorary order, usually identified with the higher classes of that order, and worn only on state occasions. The cross, medallion, or the like, is on such occasions attached to the collar, instead of to the ribbon with which it is usually worn. The collars of some of the orders of knighthood are given in the descriptions of the separate orders. See collar of SS, below. The neck-band of a coat, cloak, gown, etc., either standing or rolled over. Let us have standing collers in the fashion. All are become a stiff-necked generation. Rowlands, Knave of Hearts (1611). A standing collar to keep his neck band clean. L. Barry, Ram Alley (1611). A separate band or ruff worn for cleanliness, ornament, or warmth, and made of linen, muslin, lace, fur, etc. Same as bandoleer, 2. If one bandaleer take fire, all the rest do in that collar. Lord Orrery, quoted in Grose, i. 5. A halter. While you live, draw your neck out of the collar. Shak., R. and J., i. 1. A neck-band forming that part of the harness of a draft-animal, as a horse, to which the traces are attached, and upon which the strain of the load falls; also a neckband placed upon some other animal, as a dog, as an ornament or as a means of restraint or of identification. Her traces of the smallest spider's web; Her collars of the moonshine's watery beams. Shak., R. and J., i. 4. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound, And collars of the same their necks surround. Dryden, Fables. A wide ring of metal put about a piece of stove-pipe to make it close the “thimble” in a chimney where the thimble is larger than the pipe: as, a 6-inch collar is needed if a 6-inch pipe is to be used with an 8-inch thimble.
Anything resembling a collar; something in the form of a collar, or analogous to a collar in situation. In architecture: (1) A ring or cincture. (2) A collar-beam. In botany: (1) The ring upon the stipe (stem) of an agaric. (2) The point of junction in the embryo between the caudicle and the plumule. (3) The point of junction of the root and stem. (1) Same as collarbags. In machinery: (1) An enlargement or swell encircling a rod or shaft, and serving usually as a holding or bearing-piece. (2) An enlarged portion of the end of a car-axle, designed to receive the end-thrust of the journal-bearing; a button. In mining, the timbering around the mouth of a shaft, or at the surface of the ground. A skirting or rain-shedding device placed round a chimney where it passes through the roof. Nautical: (1) An eye in the end or bight of a shrond or stay, to go over a masthead. (2) A rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or deadeye in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part. In zoology: (1) A ring around the neck, however made, as by color of hair or feathers, shape or texture of hair or feathers, thickening of integument, presence of a set of radiating processes, etc. See cut under Balanoglossus. (2) In Infusoria, specifically, the raised rim of a collar-cell. (3) In entomology: (i.) The upper part of the prothorax when it is closely united to the mesothorax, forming a crescent-shaped anterior border to it, as in Hymenoptera and many Diptera. (ii.) A posterior prolongation of the head, usually termed a neck. [Rare.]
Against the collar uphill, so that the horse's shoulders are constantly pressed against the collar; hence, figuratively, at a disadvantage; against difficulties; against opposition.

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In the ribbon around his collar is a piece of paper. — The Lesson of Her Death
Hanging from the collar is usually the cross of the Brandenburg Langue of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, while on the breast is fastened a sort of star, consisting of the letter “W” encircled by gold laurel leaves, which has been accorded to all the officers who formed part of the household of Old Emperor William. — The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I
His casual day-off shirt was either silk or heavy rayon, and just under the fold of the collar was a small pin that read “221B.” He had no goggle marks around his eyes: Mexico, not ski slopes. — The Art of Detection
One of the times I remember him being most hot under the collar was the first game of last season at Inverness.
"What gets me hot under the collar is our lack of maturity, our lack of concentration," Cross said. — Independent Collegian RSS

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Middle English coler, from Old French colier, from Latin collāre, from collum, neck; see k^wel-¹ in Indo-European roots.

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A later spelling, imitating the L. form, of earlier modern English coller, from Middle English coller, earlier coler, from Old French coler, colier, French collier = Provencal colar = Spanish Portuguese collar = Italian collare, from Latin collare, a collar, from collum = Anglo-Saxon heals, English halse, the neck: see halse.
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