gooseneck
Noun
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Noun
gooseneck (plural goosenecks)
- (often, attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
- 1961, James S. Holton, Sound Language Teaching: The State of the Art Today (page 77)
- The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone.
- 1961, James S. Holton, Sound Language Teaching: The State of the Art Today (page 77)
- (nautical) 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.
- German: Schwanenhals
- French: vit-de-mulet
- German: Lümmelbeschlag
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