Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The back of the neck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The back upper part of the neck, technically called nucha: generally in the phrase nape of the neck.
- n. The thin part of a fish's belly next to the head. A beheaded fish, split along the belly, shows a pair of napes.
- To cut through the nape of the neck.
- n. A table-cloth.
Wiktionary
- n. The back part of the neck.
- n. A tablecloth.
- v. To bombard with napalm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The back part of the neck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the back side of the neck
Etymologies
- Middle English.
Examples
“The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of sooty fat that seemed to thrust his bullet head forward.”
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
“And she gradually noticed how the fine hairs on his nape were the color of Spanish gold; how his hands were large enough to hold her together.”
“The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of sooty fat that seemed to thrust his bullet-head forward.”
The Conan Chronicles
“And the thumbs that pressed her nape were the same.”
Beloved
“The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of fat that seemed to thrust his bullet-head forward; his eyes, gleaming coals in a dead black stump.”
Conan of Cimmeria
“The nape is the back of the birds neck and the mantle is the "cloak" or feathers on the back of the bird.”
“The program is called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (or NAEP, pronounced "nape"), and it issues reports on reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, civics, and geography.”
“Like, see, when I pull your hair like this I gently grab her hair at the nape of the neck and pull it feels good huh?”
“From the darkness of sleep my nape detected a full moist kiss; but perhaps it was a dream.”
“She smiled into the metal as I pulled at her hair, fangs buried in the nape of her neck.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nape’.
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words about piercings
needles, metal, piercing, tongue, surface, nape, ears, mouth, industrial, nose, tragus, webbing and 11 more...
yarb Short for napery presumably. Jan 19, 2011
ruzuzu And "To bombard with napalm" is just awful. Jan 19, 2011
Prolagus And by the way, definition #3 under "noun" is the definition of a verb. Jan 19, 2011
ruzuzu That's better than the one about the thin part of a fish's belly. Jan 19, 2011
Prolagus "A table-cloth"?! Jan 19, 2011