Gooseneck barnacles sweep the water with their feathery legs to catch plankton.
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Gooseneck
//ˈɡusˌnɛk//
Synonyms for "gooseneck" (3 found)
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7 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- joutsenkaula noun (anything shaped like a goose's neck)
- puominivel noun (swivel connection on a sailboat for the boom to attach to the mast)
French
1 entries- vit-de-mulet noun (swivel connection on a sailboat for the boom to attach to the mast)
German
3 entries- Lümmel noun (swivel connection on a sailboat for the boom to attach to the mast)
- Lümmelbeschlag noun (swivel connection on a sailboat for the boom to attach to the mast)
- Schwanenhals noun (anything shaped like a goose's neck)
Swedish
1 entries- svanhals noun (anything shaped like a goose's neck)
Sample sentences
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A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.
Source: wiktionary
The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone.
Source: wiktionary
The port-brace, and immediately afterwards the starboard-brace, of the crojack-yard--carried away. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see. Next, the gooseneck of the truss, on which it pivoted, smashed away. Immediately the lifts and lower-topsail sheets parted, and with a fore-and-aft pitch of the ship the spar up-ended and crashed to the deck upon Number Three hatch, destroying that section of the bridge in its fall.
Source: wiktionary
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