† 1. An earthenware retort or still with a long neck. Obs.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., cxii. 183. Take good Copperas … beat it to powder, put it in long necks, lute fast, and draw it with judgement.
1684. Boyle, Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod., v. 90. When the Vitriol has been previously calcin’d, and a reasonable allowance has been made, for what may have escaped thorow the Lute, that joined together the long Neck and Receiver.
1734. P. Shaw, Chem. Lect. (1755), 432. This Matter may now be put into a well coated Long-Neck, and worked with care in a Reverberatory Furnace.
1763. W. Lewis, Comm. Phil. Techn., 13. Distillation in coated glass retorts, earthen retorts, or longnecks.
2. A local name for birds having a long neck, e.g., the bittern, the heron, the pin-tailed duck.
1864. Atkinson, Prov. Names Birds, Long-neck,… Common Bittern. Botarus stellaris.
1882. Field Naturalist, 44. Locally, the heron is called ‘crane’ or ‘long-neck.’
1890. Century Dict. (citing G. Trumbull, 1888), Longneck, the pintail duck, Dafila acuta.
