noun. A slender curved object or part, such as the flexible shaft of a type of desk lamp.

noun. A pivoting connector by which the boom is attached to the mast on many sailboats.

noun. Nautical: A sort of iron hook fitted to the inner end of a yard or boom, for temporary attachment to a clamp of iron or an eye-bolt, A davit.

noun. In machinery, a pipe shaped like the letter S; a flexible coupling.

noun. A nozle with a universal joint used on a fire-engine stand-pipe

noun. In lumbering: A wooden bar used to couple two logging-trucks. Also called rooster.

noun. The point of draft on a logging-sled: it consists of a curved iron hook bolted to the roll. Also called draw-hook

noun. A curved iron hook driven into the bottom of a slide to check the speed of descending logs.

noun. Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.

noun. The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.

noun. something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)

"We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm."

gooseneck-band  quarter-turn gooseneck  

gooseneck barnacle  

curve  curved shape  

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