Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a collar, or something resembling a collar.
- In heraldry, same as gorged, 2.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a collar (or other encircling demarcation).
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of collar.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Wearing a collar.
- adj. (Her.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
- adj. Rolled up and bound close with a string. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.
Examples
“Gilbert Arenas watched in collared shirt and tie on the bench.”
“Other ways that utilities hedge are through fixed-price contracts and through so-called "collared" price contracts -- which set floor and ceiling prices.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Moderate Fuel Prices Should Keep Heating Bills in Check
“The investor is said to have "collared" the shares, limiting potential gains as well as potential losses.”
The Wall Street Journal: Collar Fund Offers Low Risk, Low Reward
“A shareholder is said to have "collared" shares when he or she sells a bullish call option, capping potential gains, while buying a protective put that limits losses if shares fall.”
The Wall Street Journal: Monthly Moves by 'Fear Gauge' Can Be More Quirky Than Scary
“The photo is Colleen with an elk calf that they captured and "collared" as part of an ongoing survival study.”
“Lincoln walked to the house, borrowed the book -- "collared" it, as he expressed it -- and at the end of six days had mastered it with his own thoroughness.”
“Jim, arriving just too late to save his own, promptly "collared" those of”
“Jim, arriving just too late to save his own, promptly "collared" those of Wally, leaving the last-named youth no alternative but to paddle home in the water-logged slippers – the ground being too rough and stony to admit of barefoot travelling.”
“He wondered if Sylvia would be surprised to hear that her neighbour, the fair Frenchman to whom she had been talking so familiarly, had "collared" her stakes and her winnings.”
“(If you don't know what a guayabera is, think of Ferdinand Marcos: a cotton or linen shirt, collared, that is worn untucked and has pockets at about waist height.”
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Christmas Pageant Chapter One
Vocabulary for Chapter One of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
cussed, clonked, double-jointed, contagious, volunteer, hydrangea, blackmail, horrified, collared, bobcat, hysterical, penitentiary
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