Collared
['kɒləd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Collar
(a.) Wearing a collar.
(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.
(a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.
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Examples
- As I couldn't, I held my tongue, and bore the scolding till the old gentleman collared me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whom Mrs. Sparsit incontinently collared. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When this process is complete the impression is retouched by the engraver, and hardened and collared like the matrix. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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