Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A neck of a bottle, flask, etc., provided with a male screw for the reception of a screw-cap.

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Examples

  • Her task was to take the screw-neck bottles that came from the leer, and chip and file their jagged necks and shoulders until all the roughness was removed.

    Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

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