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goosenecks

goosenecks is the plural of gooseneck.

goosenecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gooseneck.

Meaning of gooseneck

Noun

gooseneck (plural goosenecks)

  1. (attributive, often) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
    • A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.
  2. The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
    • The port-brace, and immediately afterwards the starboard-brace, of the crojack-yard--carried away. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see. Next, the gooseneck...1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI

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Questions about goosenecks

What is goosenecks the plural of?
Goosenecks is the plural of gooseneck.

Words near goosenecks in the dictionary

  1. gooseneck loosestrife
  2. gooseneck pediment
  3. gooseneck pediments
  4. goosenecked
  5. goosenecking
  6. goosenecks
  7. Goosens
  8. goosepimple
  9. goosepimpled
  10. goosepimples
  11. goosepimply

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