Definition for GOOSE-NECK

GOOSE-NECK, n. [goos'neck.]

In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom. – Encyc. Mar. Dict.

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