Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like or supplied with a gooseneck.

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Examples

  • I had a little desk there with a goose-necked lamp on it.

    Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

  • Oksana smiled and looked around in a goose-necked way.

    Wolves Eat Dogs Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2004

  • The goose-necked barnacle, with its five valves, comes in its myriads attached to derelict coco-nuts, floating logs, and pumice-stone.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • A moth fluttered into the room, drawn to the goose-necked lamp that curved over the typewriter.

    For the Love of God Janet Dailey 1981

  • A moth fluttered into the room, drawn to the goose-necked lamp that curved over the typewriter.

    For the Love of God Janet Dailey 1981

  • On his desk in the corner, where often until far into the night he had worked on the huge ruled sheets of paper covered with figures of the firm's accounts, he saw two goose-necked vials, one of lemon - colored liquid, the other of raspberry color.

    Constance Dunlap 1908

  • When this goose-necked young female with the far-away look in her eyes appeared as No. 7 in our batt'ry of lady typists, and I heard Mr. Robert havin 'a séance tryin' to dictate some of the mornin 'correspondence to her, I swung round with

    Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

  • A sergeant was in command of the party, and a drab-painted wooden cart drawn by a high-rumped, goose-necked chestnut mare, pitifully lame on the near fore, had an Engineer for driver.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • The goose-necked barnacle, with its five valves, comes in its myriads attached to derelict coco-nuts, floating logs, and pumice-stone.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Horses of all kinds under me, lean and fat, short and high, roman-nosed and goose-necked, broken and unbroken; away and away, shifting saddle and bridle and saddle-bag as I left each tired mount behind me.

    Mr. Isaacs 1881

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