horse collar

See also: horsecollar and horse-collar

English

Noun

horse collar (plural horse collars)

1. A part of a horse's harness that is used to distribute the load around its neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.

   Coordinate term: hame

2. (dated, slang) The vagina.
   • 2002 June 7, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 326:

     She lay on the bed and pulled her miniskirt down to reveal her horse collar. 'Well, pull it off,' said Audball. 'I'll have to take my boots off,' she warned. Never had Audball smelled anything so putrid, rank, foul and rotten as when she pulled off her boots. But his equipment was in a lift-off mode and if he aborted, he would suffer with the blue balls, so he put on two rubbers and held his nose.

   • 1975, Jeff Nuttall, You are Cordially Invited to the House Party:

     Starting all that again,
     should her horse collar sprout the fresh
     flowers of her grovelling desire. When
     she said, “I want a baby Henry,” it
     sounded like some grim confession. “I've
     got cancer.” “I had it with your best
     friend” “I want a baby, Henry.” […]

Translations

a bitless headpiece

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: xamıt
• Bashkir: ҡамыт (qamıt)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: хаму́т m (xamút)
• Bulgarian: хаму́т m (hamút), хомо́т (bg) m (homót)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬項圈／马项圈 (maa⁵ hong⁶ hyun¹) /

  Mandarin: 馬項圈／马项圈 (mǎxiàngquān) /

• Chuvash: хӑмӑт (hămăt)
• Czech: chomout (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: gareel (nl) n, haam (nl) m
• Estonian: rangit
• Finnish: länget (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kummet (de) n, Kumt n
• Kazakh: қамыт (qamyt)
• Kyrgyz: каамыт (ky) (kaamıt)
• Macedonian: амут m (amut)
• Norman: bouôrré m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: хомѫтъ m (xomǫtŭ)

• Old East Slavic: хомуть m (xomutĭ)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: chomąto (pl) n
• Russian: хому́т (ru) n (xomút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: око̀вратнӣк m, о̀вратнӣк m, хо̏мут n (archaic)

  Latin: okòvratnīk (sh) m, òvratnīk (sh) m, hȍmut n (archaic)

• Slovak: chomút m
• Slovene: homọ̑t m
• Sorbian:

  Lower: chomot m

  Upper: chomot m

• Tajik: хамут (xamut)
• Tatar: камыт (tt) (qamıt)
• Turkmen: hamyt
• Ukrainian: хому́т n (xomút)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: xomut (uz)
• Vilamovian: koma m

Verb

horse collar (third-person singular simple present horse collars, present participle horse collaring, simple past and past participle horse collared)

1. Alternative spelling of horsecollar