[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To put a collar on; to fetter or fasten with a collar; to surround as with a collar.
1601. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 135. For … new collering the ministers surpcloth.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 440. The said bull is then … coller’d and roap’t, and so brought to the Bull-ring in the high-street, and there baited with doggs.
1806. J. Grahame, Birds of Scot., 21. Trees New planted, dead at top, each to a post Fast-collared, culprit like.
1847–74. Halliwell, To collar the mag, to throw the coit with such precision as to surround the plug.
1865. [see COLLARING vbl. sb.].
b. Coining. To stamp a coin in a collar.
1826. E. Hawkins, Anglo-Fr. Coinage (1830), 148. From want of what is called collaring.
2. To put the collar on (a horse), esp. for the first time; hence fig. to break in to work. dial.
1692. [see COLLARING].
1750. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandman, II. ii. 48. I collar [my own children] … (as our Country Term is) as early as possible; that is, I bring them up to work as soon as they are able to do any Thing, and continue so doing, the better to fit the Back to the Burthen.
1884. Chesh. Gloss., Collar, to harness, or put the collar on, a colt for the first time. Used also for bringing up a child to work early.
3. Wrestling. (intr.) To lay hold on the opponent’s collar or neck. Also fig.
a. 1555. Ridley, Wks. (1843), 146. Ye know the deepness of Satan, being an old soldier, and you have collared with him ere now.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 395. The wrestlers, which contended to strike those with whom they were collered.
1661. Sir A. Haselrig’s Last Will & Test., Supp. 6. He grew so familiar with Oliver, as he would not stick by way of Argument to coller with him.
1708–15. Kersey, Collar (in Wrestling) is to fix, or hold on the Adversary’s Collar.
4. trans. To seize or take hold of (a person) by the collar; more loosely: To capture. In Football: To stop an opponent who is running with the ball.
1613. Day, Festivals (1615), 126. Collering others by the Necke with a Quinsie.
1713. Steele, Guardian, No. 84. If you advised him not to collar any man but one who knows what he means.
1762. Gentl. Mag., 192. His Lordship collared the footman who threw it.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, xvii. He was collared by two French soldiers, and dragged back into the battery.
5. slang. To lay hold of, take or get possession of, appropriate, master.
1728. [De Foe], Street-Robberies Consider’d, 31. Collar the Cole, Lay hold on the Money.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xv. Another gentleman comes and collars that glass of punch.
1859. All Y. Round, No. 13. 306. We were ‘well in’: we had collared the bowling.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 Jan., 6/1. All the uncontested seats which were ‘collared’ last time by Liberal Unionists.
6. Cookery. ‘To roll up (a piece of meat, a fish, etc.) and bind it hard and close with a string’ (J.) b. to cut up and press into a roll (see COLLARED 4).
c. 1670. MS. Cookery Bk., To Coller Pigg.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 149. To collar a Breast of Veal.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 43. To collar Mackarel. Ibid., 303. To collar Beef.
