I. ˈkälə(r) noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English coller, coler, from Old French coler, colier necklace, collar, from Latin collare, from collum neck; akin to Old English heals neck, Old High German, Old Norse, & Gothic hals neck, Old English hwēol wheel — more at wheel
1. : a band, strip, or chain worn or placed around the neck: as
a. obsolete : neck armor : a hauberk neckpiece
b. : an attached or separate band that varies in shape and size and serves to finish or decorate the neckline of a garment or costume — see ruff , shawl collar , wing collar
c. : a short necklace : an ornamental band or chain
d. : a band placed around the neck of a dog, cat, or other animal to lead, restrain, identify, or adorn
e. : a part of the harness of draft animals fitted over the shoulders and taking the strain when a load is being drawn
f. : a band often of iron placed around a prisoner's or slave's neck to confine or identify
g. : an ornament or badge (as a necklace) used as an insignia of an order of knighthood
h. : an indication of control : a token that another is subservient to one
an independent refusing to wear any man's collar
i. : a bandage, brace, cast, or other protecting or supporting device worn around the neck
2. : an encircling band, strap, or ring to check, guide, guard, or adorn: as
a. : an eye in the bight or end of a stay or shroud to go over the masthead
b. : a strap or grommet to secure a heart or deadeye
c. : a filler plate or shape fitted around a structural shape (as an angle or beam) passing through a bulkhead or deck
d. : a ring or round flange upon, around, or against an object chiefly to restrain motion within given limits, to hold something in place, or to cover an opening (as on a shaft to prevent endwise motion or around a pipe where it enters a wall)
e.
(1) : a curb around the mouth of a mine shaft : the immediate vicinity of the mouth of a shaft
(2) : the rock surrounding the mouth of a drill hole
f. : a piece of leather, fur, or fabric stitched around the top of a shoe or boot upper usually for ornament — compare cuff ; see shoe illustration
g. : a ring on a coining press confining a planchet while it is being struck and impressing a milling or edge lettering
h. : a narrow molding near the top or bottom of the leg of a piece of furniture
3.
a. Britain : a piece of meat or fish rolled or coiled and tied close
b. zoology : any of various structures or markings likened to a collar: as
(1) : a band of specially colored feathers about a bird's neck
(2) : the prothorax of an insect especially when lengthened, narrowed, or specially modified
(3) : the choana of a choanocyte or a choanate flagellate
c.
(1) : ring , cincture
(2) : a necking in certain orders (as the classic Tuscan)
(3) : collar beam
d.
(1) : collet I 3
(2) : the annulus of a mushroom
(3) : a ringlike mass of tissue around the base of the ovule in ginkgo
e. : an abrupt increase in the thickness of the rim of a pottery vessel or a change of direction in the vessel wall that serves to set off a band near the top
f. : the layer of foam on top of a glass of beer
g. : a band of rocks encircling rocks of another kind of or different structure
a collar of sedimentary rock
4. : an act of collaring : arrest , capture
II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
transitive verb
1.
a. : to seize by the collar or neck : obtain a hold on the neck of
a wrestler collaring an opponent
b. : capture , tackle , nab
to dart among the crowd and collar the delinquent — Sheridan Le Fanu
c. : to attain to forceful possession of : grasp , grab
the circle broke up, each collaring his own jug — Thomas Hughes
d. : to take or gain possession or control especially of what is not rightfully one's own
collar his partner's share of the profits
e. : to stop or corner and detain in unwilling conversation
collar the guest of honor
f. : to draw up to and pass
the favorite collared the tiring longshot in the stretch
2.
a. : to put a collar on : adorn with a collar
collar a coat
: form a collar around
b. : to fasten a collar on (an animal)
3. : to roll up and tie (meat or fish) for cooking ; specifically : to roll up and fit into a mold and cook with herbs and spices
collared eels
intransitive verb
: to wind around a roll instead of moving straight through — used of a steel bar in a rolling mill