Definition of collar

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Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..

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Collet :: Collet (n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill..
Encollar :: Encollar (v. t.) To furnish or surround with a collar.
Torques :: Torques (n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar..
Rabato :: Rabato (n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.
Collards :: Collards (n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as greens; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort..
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children..
Collar :: Collar (n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
Jougs :: "Jougs (n.) An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke..
Hame :: Hame (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them..
Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing..
Collared :: Collared (a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or cincture.
Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..
Dicky :: Dicky (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.
Collar :: Collar (n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..
Collared :: Collared (a.) Wearing a collar.
Collar :: Collar (v. t.) To seize by the collar.
Housing :: Housing (n.) An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
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