ewe-neck

[ yoo-nek ]

noun

1. a thin hollow neck, low in front of the shoulder, as of a horse or other animal.

ewe-neck

noun

1. a condition in horses in which the neck is straight and sagging rather than arched
2. a horse or other animal with this condition

Derived Forms

• ˈewe-ˌnecked, adjective

Other Words From

• ewe-necked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ewe-neck¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

Our Ewe-neck bay had a trace of racer in him, and being weakened by poor food, it was his bad luck to slip over the bank into a quicksand creek.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a limpsey, long-legged, shaggy animal, with a ewe-neck, drooping head, and little, undecided tail, completely knotted up with burs; but then he was only five years old.

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I don't know whether you ever had a collar over your darned ewe-neck or not.

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In fact she was a thorough hunter; no beauty certainly, with her ewe-neck, drooping tail, and white face and stocking; but she had an eye at once gentle and wild as that of a savage angel, if my reader will condescend to dream for a moment of such an anomaly; while her hind quarters were power itself, and her foreleg was flung right out from the shoulder with a gesture not of work but of delight; the step itself being entirely one of work,—long in proportion to its height.

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But the Colonel said that he must go, and he was cast in due form and replaced by a washy, bay beast, as ugly as a mule, with a ewe-neck, rat-tail, and cow-hocks.

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