Forms: 3–6 coler, 5–7 coller, 5–6 colar, 5– collar; also 4–5 colere, 5 coleer, collere, (colyer), 6 collare, (choller, 7 choler, couller, collor, colour). [ME. coler, a. AF. coler = OF. colier (later collier) = Pr. colar, Sp. collar, It. collare:—L. collāre, f. coll-um neck: see -AR1 2. By successive approximations to the Latin, coler has become collar.]
I. Something worn about the neck.
1. The part of a garment that encircles the neck, or forms the upper border near the neck; the neckband of a coat, cloak, dress, shirt, etc., either standing up round the neck, or folded over upon the garment; also a separate article of attire worn round the neck; now particularly applied to the band (often separate) of linen, muslin, lace, etc., which, in various shapes, is worn as an ornament or finish to the upper part of the ordinary dress of men and women.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 28016 (Cott.). Biletts for-broiden and colers wide.
1382. Wyclif, Job xxx. 18. As with a coler [Vulg. capitio] of a kote thei girten me.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 79. A brooch sche baar vp on hir loue coler.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 31. Seruyng women of lowe astate … thei furre her colers, that hangin doune into the middil of the backe.
1557. F. Seager, Sch. Virtue, 86, in Babees Bk. (1868), 338. Thy shyrte coler fast to thy necke knyt.
1612. Rowlands, Knave of Hearts. Let us have standing collars in the fashion; All are become a stiff-necked generation.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 118, ¶ 10. Two Thirds of the greatest Beauties about Town will have Cambrick Collars on their Necks.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, II. iv. 30. He would perhaps be dragged by the collar through the public streets.
1881. Ld. Dunraven, in 19th Cent., Nov., 691. The gentility of most men is contained in their shirt collars…. Remove it, supply its place with a ragged woollen muffler or kerchief of ancient date, and the effect is marvellous and sad. If you want to destroy an aristocracy, cut off their collars, not their heads.
† 2. A piece of armor protecting the neck; the neck-piece of a hauberk or similar piece of armor.
1297. R. Glouc. (1724), 223. Anne stroche ȝef hym … þoru haubert and ys coler.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 7318. He clefe hym to þe coler, & the kyng deghit.
c. 1450. Merlin, x. 158. Lucas … smote hym with all his myght thourgh the coler of his haubrek.
1581. Styward, Mart. Discipl., I. 44. A fayre Corllet, with all the peeces appertaining to the same, that is the curats, ye collers, the poldrens with the Vambraces.
1590. Sir J. Smyth, Disc. Weapons, 3. Verie well armed with some kind of head-peece, a collar, [etc.].
† 3. An ornamental band or chain worn round the neck for ornament, or as a badge of office or livery; also, a necklace. Obs. in general sense.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1569. A coler of cler golde clos vmbe his þrote.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 87. Coller of leuery, torques.
1485. Caxton, Paris & V., 29. Thenne they took the colyer and the whyte baner of Vyenne.
1552. Huloet, Collar or bee whyche gentilwomen do vse to weare about their neckes, monile. Collar or chayne of golde or syluer, torques.
1611. Bible, Judg. viii. 26. Collars, & purple raiment.
1642. Let. fr. Amsterdam, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 745. I cannot learn … of the sale of any Jewels, save divers Collars of Pearl.
b. spec. The ornamental chain that forms part of the insignia of orders of knighthood.
1488. in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), II. 393/1. A collar of cokkilschellis contenand xxiiii schellis of gold.
1548. Hall, Chron., an. 22 Hen. VII. (R.), lx. The kyng … sent … to the duke of Urbyne, the whole habite and coller of the noble ordre of the gartier.
1577. Harrison, England, II. v. (1877), I. 121. A collar of the garter of thirtie ounces of gold Troie weight.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 362. The Collar of the Order being of pure gold, made of Garters and knots, and enameld with Roses white and red, weying about xxx. ounces Troy weight.
1647. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (ed. 4), 6. He … wore a great chaine like the Collar of some Order.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 97. 4/2. The Duke received the Collar of the Holy Ghost.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Collar, Knights of the Collar, a military order in the republic of Venice; called also the order of St. Mark, or the medal … the knights bear no particular habit, only the collar, or chain.
1835. Penny Cycl., IV. 24/1. The collar [of the Order of the Bath] to be of gold … composed of nine imperial crowns, and eight roses, thistles, and shamrocks issuing from a sceptre … linked together by seventeen gold knots … and having the badge of the order pendant from it.
c. Collar of SS., S’s, or Esses: an ornamental chain consisting of a series of S’s either joined together side by side or fastened in a row upon a band or ribbon; originally worn as a badge by the adherents of the House of Lancaster.
This still forms part of the official dress of various officers; the name is erroneously applied by Blount and others to the collar of the Order of the Garter.
1407. Issue Roll of Excheq., in Cussans, Heraldry, 256. Paid 3 November … for a collar of gold worked with the Motto Soveignez and the letter S.
1519. King’s Bk. of Payments, Aug. ibid. To Sir Richard Wingfield for a Collar of Esses.
1532–3. Act 24 Hen. VIII., c. 13. That no manne, onelesse he be a knight … weare any coler of golde named a coler of S.
1598. Speght, Chaucer’s Wks., B iij. [Gower] lyeth buried … with his image lying ouer him … a collar of esses gold about his necke … being the ornament of a knight.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 230 (1811), 246. About their neck a silver collar of S’s.
1681. Blount, Glossogr., s.v. Collardays, On those days the King and the Knights of the Garter wear their Collars of SS.
1684. Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), II. 601. The collar of esses [of the Lord Mayor] and sword … pass through many hands in … the use of them.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, I. 198. I’ll ruffle no Collars of Esses.
1882. Cussans, Heraldry, xviii. 255. The King-of-Arms, and Heralds; the Lord Mayor of London; the two Chief Justices; the Chief-Baron; the Sergeants-at-Arms, and certain other officers of the Royal Household, still wear a Collar of S.S. as a mark of their official dignity.
fig. 1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iv. Or to a mead a wanton river dresses, With richest collers of her turning esses.
4. A band put round the neck of a dog or other animal, as a means of control or identification, or for ornament; also transf.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. Prol. 169. To bugge a belle of brasse or of briȝte syluer, And knitten on a colere for owre comune profit, And hangen it vp-on þe cattes hals.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 87. Coller of howndys, millus.
1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 812. Hic millus, a grehownd colere.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1874), II. 34. He that wyll labour a beast to hunt or chace … His lynes, colers, and lesshes he must dres.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 5. Mammonets are lesse than an Ape … his neck almost so big as his body, for which cause they are tied by the hips, that they slip not collar.
1786. Burns, Twa Dogs, 13. His locked, letter’d, braw brass collar Shew’d him the gentleman and scholar.
1870. Blaine, Encycl. Rur. Sports, § 1948. Collars and slips are also parts of the greyhound’s dress and appendages…. The collars to which they are attached are now of leather, as metal collars stained the neck.
5. A band of iron or other metal fixed round the neck of prisoners, worn as a badge of servitude, etc.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxliv. 305. There was made … a strong cheyne and a coler of yren for hym. Ibid. (c. 1489), Sonnes of Aymon, xvi. 369. And wyth all he gaff hym [Mawgis] a grete coler of yron abowte his necke wherof the kynge kepte the key hymselfe.
c. 1530. Hickscorner, in Hazl., Dodsley, I. 157. Among the thickest of yeomen of the collar.
1694. Lond. Gaz., No. 3008/4. A Black Boy … run away the 8th Instant … having a Collar about his Neck with this Inscription, The Lady Bromfield’s Black in Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. II. xxii. 428. He was tied with a collar of iron about his neck, fastened to a chain, and that chain fastened to a post.
1820. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxxii. A smith and a file … to do away the collar from the neck of a freeman.
1842. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites, 115. I wear an undress’d goatskin on my back; A grazing iron collar grinds my neck.
6. A leather-covered roll made to fit over the lower part of the neck of a horse or other draught animal, forming that part of the harness through which the power of drawing is directly exerted; with qualification, as breast collar, the term is extended to parts of the harness serving the same purpose, but not fitted round the neck.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 87. Coller of horsys, epiphium.
1480. Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 123. For vj drawing colers.
1532. Fitzherb., Husb., § 5. Both his hombers or collers, holmes whyted, tresses, swyngletrees, and togwith.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iv. 62. Her coullers of the Moonshines watry Beames, her Whip of Crickets bone
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 339/2. The Collar … made of Canvis and Leather stufed with straw or wooll.
1801. W. Felton, Carriages, II. 169. The absurdity prevails of using breast-collars to heavy four-wheeled carriages, and the neck-collar to light two-wheeled carriages.
1855. F. E. Smedley, H. Coverdale, iv. 19. The mare … took well to collar at starting, and kept it up steadily.
1868. Dickens, Dr. Marigold, 138 (Hoppe). The high road ascends … till it comes in sight of Cumner. Every step against the collar, yet so gradual is the ascent that [etc.].
1885. Times, 23 Sept., 3/1. A tedious and stiff pull against the collar.
† 7. A shoulder-belt fitted with little loops, in which cartridges were suspended; a BANDOLEER in the earlier sense. Obs.
1672. Charles II., Warrant, 2 April. One matchlocke musquet, with a collar of bandaliero.
1677. Ld. Orrery, Art of War, 31. If one Bandaleer take Fire, all the rest do in that Collar.
8. fig. (from 4–6.) Also phrases: † To slip (the) collar: to escape from restraint; to draw back from a task or undertaking; also † to shrink collar. Out of (or in) collar: out of (or in) work or regular employment. Against the collar: entailing continuous exertion or hard strain, as when a horse presses against the collar in pulling a heavy load or in going up a hill (cf. sense 6); cf. COLLAR-WORK.
1470. J. Paston, in Paston Lett., No. 461, II. 339. I shall do as well as I may for fawt of monye tyll I spek with yow. I have many collars on, as I shall tell yow when I come.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxvi. 3. The harde and stif-necked (whiche woold fayne slip their neckes out of his coler).
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 707. He began a little to rowze himself, and to lift up his head: but he shrunk collar again soon after, because the Athenians would not rise.
1591. Spenser, M. Hubberd, 269. The Ape … would have slipt the coller handsomly.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. (1839), 540. Slily slip off the collar of their civil subjection.
1677. Marvell, Growth Popery, 34. When we were engaged in a War, the Dutch would likely slip Collar, leave us in the War.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 114. It obliged sovereigns to submit to the soft collar of social esteem.
1855. A. Manning, Old Chelsea Bun-house, vii. 108. Your gentler Birth and Bringing-up … makes the Collar so hard to wear.
1862. All Y. Round, 13 Sept., 12. Lor’ bless you, I’ve known a leading man, out of collar, say ‘sir’ to Joey.
b. In the following some commentators take it as ‘the hangman’s halter,’ comparing 2 Hen. IV., V. v. 92: but?
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. i. 6. While you liue, draw your necke out o’th Collar.
† 9. The collar-bone. Obs. rare.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 35. Þe heroun is slayn, as have I sene … Þenne under þo wynge þo skyn þou cralle, Pyt in þo bylle at coler þou schalle.
II. Transferred and technical senses.
10. An encompassing and restraining band or strap.
1507. Louth (Lincolnsh.), Churchw. Acc. (MS.), Paid Codder makyng bell colars xd.
1563. Stow, Mem., in Three 15th C. Chron. (Camden). 125. Anno 1563, ye xxx of July … was one whipt on a sckaffold … his neke, his hands, and fett made faste to a stake a bove ye sayd skafold with kolars of iron.
1593. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 34. Item given for a bell coller … xijd.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xxxii. (ed. 3), 469. When there are two shields accolées, a Collar may encircle them both.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. p. cvi. The nerve-system consists of supra-oesophageal and of ventrally-placed ganglia, connected with each other so as to form a collar round the oesophagus.
11. Mech. A ring, circle, flange, or perforated disk, surrounding a rod, shaft, pipe, etc., for restraining lateral motion; forming a steam-, or water-tight joint, and the like; a short piece of pipe serving as a connection between two pipes, etc.
(With numerous special applications in different trades and different departments of mechanism.)
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 50. The motion of the Coller about the Main-spindle allows it; but were the … Coller fixt, it could not move at all.
1715. Desaguliers, in Phil. Trans., XXIX. 441. I fix’d each End of it into a triangular Collar of Tin.
1794. [see collar-bolt in 21].
1849. Weale, Dict. Terms, Collar, a plate of metal screwed down upon the stuffing-box of a steam-engine, with a hole to allow the piston-rod to pass through.
1859. Rankine, Steam Engine, § 125. The friction between a plunger and its collar.
1881. Mechanic, 518. Sometimes the drain pipes are laid with collars … that is, short pieces of piping sufficiently large to receive the ends of two pipes, thus keeping them firmly in their place.
1884. F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 187. A collar with a hole in the middle, of a size to slip freely over the steel rod.
b. Turning. ‘A ring inserted in the puppet for holding the end of the mandril next the chuck’ (Weale, Dict. Terms).
1680. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 199. Hollow Maundrels are also used in Collers that open not with a Joynt.
1833. J. Holland, Manuf. Metals, II. 103. An iron mandrel, the ends of which run in collars or journeys.
c. Coining. A metal ring that encloses the blank or planchet, and serves to prevent it from spreading when stamped, as well as to impress the milling (or, if required, a legend) on its edge.
1826. [implied in verb].
1839. Penny Cycl., XV. 253/1. The letters were impressed upon the edge by including the blanks in a collar which contained the legend…. The metal, thus placed, being struck with the die, expanded under it, and received the form of whatever was engraven on the inside of the collar.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 349. s.v. Mint, The blow, which is estimated at 40 tons, forces the metal into every engraved part of the collar and dies.
1876. Humphreys, Coin Coll. Man., xix. 247. The Greek moneyers did not understand the principle of the collar, by which an accurate circle is obtained in modern times.
12. Naut. a. ‘A rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or dead-eye seized in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part.’ b. ‘An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay to go over the mast-head.’ (Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.)
c. (See quot. 1753).
1626. Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Sea-men, 14. The tackles, the mison stay, the collers, the maine shrouds and chaines. Ibid. (1627), Seaman’s Gram., v. 18. The maine Masts stay is made fast by a Lannier to a Coller, which is a great Rope that comes about the head and Boulspret, the other end to the head of the maine Mast.
1712. E. Cooke, Voy. S. Sea, 332. The Marquis … broke the Collar of the Fore-stay.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., There is also a collar, or garland, about the main mast head, which is a rope wound about there, to save the shrouds from galling.
1835. Sir J. Ross, N.-W. Pass., ix. 126. A collar and bits for a new bowsprit.
1878. W. Clark Russell, Wreck ‘Grosvenor,’ xvii. The collar of the mainstay.
13. Of a plow (see quot.).
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Collar of the plough, a term used by our farmers to express a ring of iron, which is fixed to the middle of the beam, and serves to receive the ends of two chains, the lower one called the tow chain, and the upper one called the bridle chain…. These chains, by means of this collar, and their other insertions, serve to join the head and the tail of the plough together.
14. Mining. The timbering round a shaft’s mouth.
1849. Weale, Dict. Terms, Collar of a shaft, the timber and boarding used to secure the uppermost part of a shaft in loose rubble from falling in.
1880. W. Cornw. Gloss., Collar, boards near the surface for securing the shaft of a mine.
15. Arch. a. = COLLARINO.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Cincture, That at bottom is peculiarly called apophyge; as if the pillar took its flight hence: and that at top, colarin, or collar.
1842–76. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Collar, or Colarino … is another name for the astragal of a column.
b. Short for COLLAR-BEAM.
1856–8. Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict., I. 113. Collar, or Collar-Beam, called ‘choler’ by early English writers on architecture…. In old roofs the collar is frequently framed into the rafters.
1874. T. Hardy, Madding Crowd, I. xxii. 240. The dusky, filmed, chestnut roof, braced and tied in by huge collars, curves, and diagonals.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., § 2052. When the latter was the case, a second collar was generally introduced above the first.
16. Angling. An arrangement by which several artificial flies are attached to one line in fly-fishing.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxxvi. (1889), 352. He … dropped his collar of flies lightly on the water, each cast covering another five feet of the dimpling surface. Ibid., 355. He … went off … with two yards of my collar and a couple of first-rate flies.
17. Zool. A band of a distinct color or texture round the neck of an animal.
1664. Pepys, Diary, 25 April. A bird … black the greatest part, with the finest collar of white about the neck.
1797. Bewick, Brit. Birds (1847), I. 82. A variety of the Daw found in Switzerland, having a white collar round its neck.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, IV. 173. The most distinguishing mark of the species [the Collared Aï] is a large black collar which completely surrounds the neck.
b. In Insects: The pro-thorax which bears the first pair of legs; sometimes limited to the posterior part of this when it forms a ring-like anterior border to the meso-thorax, as in Hymenoptera.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xlvii. (1828), IV. 387. The existence of the collar in the Trichoptera.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 157. The prothorax is ring-like and is hence often termed ‘collar.’
c. In Mollusks: A thickened muscular and glandular border of the mantle.
1847. in Craig.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 52. (Edible Snail) In the completion of the act of forcing the animal’s body out of the shell, the ‘collar’ takes a share.
d. A rim surrounding the flagellum or cilium of the cell in various lower animal forms.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 252. The ampullae [of a sponge] are lined by cylindrical granular endoderm cells—about sixty to each ampulla—with a basal nucleus, single cilium surrounded by a hyaline protoplasmic collar. Ibid., 847. Choanoflagellata … [are] distinguished by … the possession of a single fine flagellum, implanted … within an area surrounded by a clear funnel-shaped collar of protoplasm.
18. Bot. a. ‘The ring upon the stipe of an agaric.’ b. ‘The point of junction between the radicle and the plumule’ (Treas. Bot.).
1866. Treas. Bot., s.v. Collum, The point of departure of the ascending and descending axes, that is to say, of the root and stem, which is often called the collar.
1881. Gardener’s Chron., XVI. 721. They appear to attack the collar of the plant, and at this position get inside.
19. Cookery. † a. The neck-piece (of brawn). Obs. b. A piece of meat (esp. brawn), a fish, etc., tied up in a roll or coil.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., IV. i. What do you say to a collar of brawn, cut down Beneath the souse?
1617. Minsheu, Ductor, Collar, or necke of brawne … because it is onely the necke of a Boare.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 115. He intends to send you a whole brawn in collers.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., xxxix. (1689), 266. You may serve it [eel] either in collars, or in round slices.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xviii. 290. Lay … salt over the salmon; so roll it up into a collar, and bind it with broad tape.
1814. Byron, Lett. to Moore, 9 April. A collar of brawn which I swallowed for supper.
† c. A roll or bundle. Obs.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 49/2. Sarsaparilla … is a very long Root, like a small Cord, which is brought from New Spain in Collars, or long Bundles of fibrous Branches.
20. Wrestling. A manœuvre in which the opponent is tackled by the neck; cf. COLLAR v. 3.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 410. As though a man might not as easily overthrow this challenger with his owne collers here.
c. 1600. Norden, Spec. Brit. Cornw. (1728), 29. The firste [wrestling] is acted in two sortes, by Holdster (as they call it) and by the Coller.
1873. Slang Dict., Collar and elbow, a term for a peculiar style of wrestling—the Cornwall and Devon style.
21. Comb. collar-awl, a form of awl used in sewing horses’ collars, etc.; † collar-band, a band serving as a collar (cf. BAND sb.2 4); collar-bird, a species of Bower-bird; collar-block, a block on which a horse collar is shaped; collar-bolt, a bolt with a collar or ring; collar-brace (see quot.); collar-cell, a cell with a collar (cf. 17 d); collar-check (see quot.); collar-dresser, one who starches and irons collars; collar-gall, a wound produced (on a horse) by the rubbing of the collar; so collar-galled ppl. adj.; collar-harness, harness with a neck-collar, as distinct from that with a breast-collar; collar-launder, a receptacle fixed, like a collar, on the top of the delivery pipe of a pump, to receive the water before its discharge into the conduit: see LAUNDER; collar-like a., resembling a collar, ring-like; † collar-link, a part of the plow belonging to the collar (cf. 13); collar-nail, a nail with a projecting collar, used in blind-soling shoes; collar-plate (see quot.); † collar-pleat, ? a pleat or fold produced by the collar; collar-proud a. (dial.), restive when in harness, said of a horse; † collar-shirt (see quot.); † collar-spot, a mark made by a collar; collar-tool, a blacksmith’s tool for making collars on rods, bolts, etc.; collar-worn a., hurt or strained by the collar (as a horse).
1684. Satyr agst. Commw., 1. Here Men with swinging Trowsers awe, And divine *collar-bands give law.
1702. Addison, Dial. Medals (1727), 17. Of the Ruff and Collar-band.
1856. Dickens, in Househ. Words, 497/2 (Hoppe). His neat collar-band turned over evenly all round the cravat, gave to his figure a slim and youthful appearance.
1794. W. Felton, Carriages (1801), I. 104. *Collar-bolt, a bolt with a shoulder or collar in the middle and double-screwed ends, which serves to fix one thing upon another, that either may be separately taken away without displacing the other. Ibid., I. 106. A double and single *collar-brace ring. Ibid., I. 211. Collar braces, are those that go round the perch or crane … to check the motion [of the body of a carriage] sideways.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, *Collar-check, a rough cross-barred woollen material for saddlery purposes, made either broad or narrow.
1890. Daily News, 28 Jan., 7/6. The child, the step-daughter of a *collar-dresser.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2381/4. An Iron grey Gelding … 3 or 4 *Collar-Galls on his Shoulder. Ibid. (1684), No 1958/4. Her off Shoulder Coller gald.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xx. (1876), 471. Are we to suppose that each island is surrounded by a *collar-like submarine ledge of rock…?
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Plough, Particular parts of a plough … the *Collar Links, the plough pillow.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., 594. *Collar-plate, an auxiliary puppet, or midway rest in a lathe for turning long pieces.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4085/4. A Black Horse, with … white Hairs on the *Collar-pleat.
1884. Chesh. Gloss., *Collar-proud, restive.
1832. Regul. Instr. Cavalry, II. 40. The *collar-rein or chain is unfastened.
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Numms, a Sham, or *Collar-Shirt, to hide the t’other when Dirty.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 4040/4. A bright bay Nag … with … some sign of *Collar spots upon his Shoulders.
1882. Bp. of Carlisle, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 464. Horses … suffering from a *collarworn shoulder.
