Definitions for Collar

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Collar col·lar

Spelling: [kol-er]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ər/

Collar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in Collar (acllor).

Definitions for Collar

noun

1. the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
2. a similar but separate, detachable article of clothing worn around the neck or at the neckline of a garment. Compare clerical collar.
3. anything worn or placed around the neck.
4. a leather or metal band or a chain, fastened around the neck of an animal, used especially as a means of restraint or identification.
5. the part of the harness that fits across the withers and over the shoulders of a draft animal, designed to distribute the pressure of the load drawn.
6. an ornamental necklace worn as insignia of an order of knighthood.
7. a narrow strip of leather or other material stitched around the top of a shoe as reinforcement or trimming.
8. Zoology. any of various collarlike markings or structures around the neck; torque.
9. Metallurgy. a raised area of metal for reinforcing a weld. a raised rim at the end of a roll in a rolling mill to check lateral expansion of the metal being rolled.
10. Machinery. a short ring formed on or fastened over a rod or shaft as a locating or holding part.
11. (in iron or steel construction) a rigid frame for maintaining the form of an opening.
12. the upper rim of a borehole, shot hole, or mine shaft.
13. Also called bracelet. a narrow horizontal molding encircling the top or bottom of a furniture leg.
14. Glassmaking. merese.
15. Informal. an arrest; capture. a person placed under arrest.

Idioms

1. hot under the collar, Informal. angry; excited; upset.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a collar on; furnish with a collar:
2. to seize by the collar or neck:
3. to detain (someone anxious to leave) in conversation:
4. to lay hold of, seize, or take.
5. Informal. to place under arrest.
6. to roll up and bind (meat, fish, etc.) for cooking.

verb (used without object)

1. Metalworking. (of a piece being rolled) to wrap itself around a roller.

Origin of Collar

1250-1300; Middle English coler Anglo-French; Old French colier Latin collāre neckband, collar, equivalent to coll(um) neck + -āre, neuter (as noun) of -āris -ar^1<

Examples for Collar

His collar was low for the mode, his gloveless hands were red.

He was “v[ery] hot under the collar ... frustrated and mad, self-righteous.”

Martin was thankful when he felt the collar buttons in their holes.

Then Foley was shown on his knees, his body erect—even proud—clad in an orange tunic with no collar, and his head shaved.

The kid wore a white T-shirt with the collar stretched loosely around the top of his smooth chest.

The knight wears the collar of SS, and his arms are on his surcoat.

After tightening her collar, Stella assumed slave posture: on her knees, legs slightly spread, palm resting face-up on her thighs.

He ran his finger around his collar—an old gesture; but the collar was very loose.

He tugged at his collar as if to breathe the easier, cleared his throat and began again.

A portrait of him was done once in which the collar point was made to sit in its proper place.