A peninsula.
1555. Vppon the innermoste necke to the landewarde, is a tufte of trees.—R. Eden, ‘Decades’ (1885) p. 361. (N.E.D.)
1601. The third towne of Boeotia from this sea is Page, from whence proceedeth and beareth forth the necke or cape of Peloponnesus.—Holland, ‘Pliny,’ i. 73. (N.E.D.)
1677. Mount-hope, Pocasset, and several other Necks of the best land in the Colony.—W. Hubbard, ‘Narrative,’ 13. (N.E.D.)
1705. He fear’d the Burgesses would be too much in the Interest of their Country-men, and adjudge the inhabitants of the Northern Neck, to have an equal Liberty and Privilege in their Estates, with the rest of Virginia, as being settled upon the same Foot.—Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ i. 86.
1784. Will be let, a small Peninsula, or Neck, of Land…. There are improvements on the place.—Advt. by George Washington, Maryland Journal, July 20. [In another advt., of same date, Gunpowder-Neck, Harford County, is mentioned.]
1787. The following is the most singular advertisement I ever met with.—“To be sold, the south part of Abraham Lawrence’s neck.”… It is to be supposed that a piece of land, and not his natural neck, is intended.—American Museum, ii. 307.
1821. Its [Huntington Bay, L.I.] mouth is formed by two peninsulas, or, as they are here termed, necks; Eaton’s, on East; and Lloyd’s, on the West.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ iii. 284. (Italics in the original.)
