Lexicographical Neighbors of Longnecks
Literary usage of Longnecks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fish and Fisheries: A Selection from the Prize Essays of the International by David Herbert (1883)
"In appearance, they are like longnecks which are found on drift-wood, except the
colour, as the cirripedes are brown; and they have no shells like the ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1854)
"They met with a good deal of game, herds of buffaloes, many antelopes, and a
number of giraffe?, whose longnecks, as Mr. Parky us tells us, ..."
3. Scientific Correspondence of Joseph Priestley: Ninety-seven Letters by Joseph Priestley (1891)
"DEAR SIR : I am much obliged to you for the stock of longnecks you have been so
good as to send me. I must inform you, however, that the necks are too short ..."
4. Voyages to the East-Indies by Johan Splinter Stavorinus (1798)
"... which we vulgarly call longnecks, and which adhere to the bottoms of mips, or
to timber that has been long in the water ; fomc very ..."
5. Scientific Correspondence of Joseph Priestley: Ninety-seven Letters by Joseph Priestley (1891)
"DEAR SIR : I am much obliged to you for the stock of longnecks you have been so
good as to send me. I must inform you, however, that the necks are too short ..."
6. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... earthen vef- fels called longnecks, laid on their fides, fo that the vapour
paries off laterally with little or no afcent : a receiver ¡e luted to the ..."
7. Romantic Weekends in Northern and Central Florida by Janet Groene, Gordon Groene (2003)
"If you want to plug into a switched-on weekend filled with motorcycles, race
cars, longnecks, and wet T-shirt contests, Daytona is here for you. ..."
8. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"Progeny. Flat and "jugs," chiefly cream and striped, slightly warty. 1906.
Variable, mostly "jugs" and longnecks. 1907. ..."
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