Also 9 dial. fic-fac, fig-fag. [See the variant PAX-WAX.]
The thick tendon in the neck of cattle or sheep.
[c. 1280. W. de Biblesworth, in Promp. Parv., 388. Et si ad le wenne (fex wex) au col derere.]
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 444. In þe nek þe fyxfax þat þow do away.
[c. 1500. Fr.-Eng. Glossary (Harl. MS. 219, f. 150), in Promp. Parv., 388. Le vendon, the fax wax.]
1691. Ray, Creation (1722), 157. Which Aponeurosis is taken notice of by the Vulgar by the Name of Fixfax, or Pack-wax, or White-leather.
1737. H. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 317. We should cut the Fix-Fax of the Neck (as he call’d it) which is the large and strong Tendon that supports the Head.
1869. Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., Fixfax.
1878. Cumberld. Gloss., Fic-fac, fig-fag.
