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necking down

necking down is the present participle and gerund of neck down.

Meaning of neck down

Verb

neck down (third-person singular simple present necks down, present participle necking down, simple past and past participle necked down)

  1. (transitive) To alter (a cartridge) by forcing it into a smaller calibre and size.

Questions about necking down

What is necking down the present participle and gerund of?
Necking down is the present participle and gerund of neck down.

Words near necking down in the dictionary

  1. neckholders
  2. neckholds
  3. neckhole
  4. neckholes
  5. necking
  6. necking down
  7. necking up
  8. neckinger
  9. neckingers
  10. neckings
  11. neckkerchief

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Adapted from Wiktionary: necking down (page history and authors); neck down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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