a. Having a long neck (in various senses): used spec. in the names of some animals.
c. 1605. Drayton, Man in Moone, 203. The long neck’d Heron there waching by the brim.
1689. Lond. Gaz., No. 2422/4. A slender Horse, 5 years old,… long neck’d, thick jaw’d.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 337. A long-neck’d Vial, like a Matrass.
1835. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 27. The thing goes off with small damage to even a long-necked purse.
1854. A. Adams, etc., Man. Nat. Hist., 69. Long-necked Tortoises (Chelydidæ).
1890. Daily News, 27 Sept., 2/1. The long-necked will rejoice to learn that collars are higher than ever.
1894. Cosmopolitan, XVI. 344. Gracefully long-necked plesiosauri.
