A thin hollow neck (in a horse).
1820. W. Irving, Sketch-bk. Sleepy Hollow (1887), 410. A broken-down plough-horse … with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports (ed. 3), 322. Between the two extremes of the ewe-neck and its opposite there are many degrees.
Hence Ewe-necked a.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 45. 18/4. A grey Mare … Ewe-Neck’d.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Grey Dolphin. His dapple-grey steed … was a little ewe-necked.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., 298.
| Here comes the wonderful one-horse-shay, | |
| Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. |
1878. Cumberld. Gloss., Yowe neck’t, the arch of the neck bending downwards.
