Crossword clues for gooseneck
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps. 2 (context nautical English) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
WordNet
n. something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)
Wikipedia
The gooseneck is the swivel connection on a sailboat by which the boom attaches to the mast. The boom moves from side to side and up and down by swiveling on the gooseneck.
The gooseneck may be a two axis swivel as pictured. Having an integrated shackle for the tack is common. Goosenecks on older rigs may be formed by a loop attached to the end of the boom that fits loosely about the mast.
Gooseneck may refer to:
- The neck of a goose
- Gooseneck, a type of sailing rigging attachment
- Gooseneck (drilling rig), a thick, hollow metal elbow that supports and provides a downward angle from which the Kelly hose hangs
- Gooseneck, Isle of Man, a hairpin corner on the Snaefell Mountain Course
- Gooseneck barnacle, a species of crustacean
- Gooseneck (piping), a piping or ductwork feature
- A crowbar (tool)
- A type of trailer hitch for commercial and agricultural use
- A type of horse trailer
- A type of flexible tubing used in light fixtures or microphone stands.
- A type of erosional feature, in which a meander of an entrenched river gets entrenched into surrounding bedrock, as in Goosenecks State Park
- A kind of a chopper motorcycle frame, which has the front part of frame (between the fuel tank and the fork) stretched
- A prime cut of beef that includes the bottom round, eye round, and the heel
- A flower of the variety Lysimachia clethroides
A gooseneck (or goose neck) is a 180° pipe fitting at the top of a vertical pipe that prevents entry of water. Common implementations of goosenecks are ventilator piping or ducting for bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans, ship holds, landfill methane vent pipes, or any other piping implementation exposed to the weather where water ingress would be undesired. It is so named because the word comes from the similarity of pipe fitting to the bend in a goose's neck.
Gooseneck may also refer to a style of kitchen or bathroom faucet with a long vertical pipe terminating in a 180° bend.
To avoid hydrocarbon accumulation, a thermosiphon should be installed at the low point of the gooseneck.
Gooseneck, Lead (pigtail) Leaded goosenecks are short sections of lead pipe (1’ to 2’ long) used during the early 1900s up to World War Two in supplying water to a customer. These lead tubes could be easily bent, and allowed for a flexible connection between rigid service piping. The bent segments of pipe often took the shape of a goose’s neck, and are referred to as “lead goosenecks.” Lead is no longer permitted in new water systems or new building construction.
Goosenecks (also referred to as pigtails) are in-line components of a water service (i.e. piping, valves, fittings, tubing, and accessories) running from the distribution system water main to a meter or building inlet. The valve used to connect a small-diameter service line to a water main is called a corporation stop (also called a tap, or corp stop). One gooseneck joins the corporation stop to the water service pipe work. A second gooseneck links the supply pipeline to a water meter located outside the building.
Usage examples of "gooseneck".
He had the bimetal gas cutoff valve disabled in five seconds and the gooseneck hose off in ten.
The hull of the lifeboat invited life too, in the form of small gooseneck barnacles.
He gathered the details of scarlet and yellow and green anemones, great gooseneck barnacles kick- ing their feet in the water to draw in their food, long strands of kelp reaching up toward sunlight, a pretty little octopus, watching curiously, following him cephalopod-fashion, squirting water and trailing its legs.
Holding the driver's license in the light from the gooseneck lamp, he sees that the name is Thomas Fujimoto.
But he had lost the amazing young woman, totally and completely, he realized that, just as he realized that she was purely naked under the white shirt, and that the light of her gooseneck lamp was shining right on her breast and her flat belly and her naked thighs.
His hand was into the drawer closing around a gun, when Remo snatched up the gooseneck lamp from the desk and looped it over Spesk's head, around his throat, and yanked him back from the revolver.
When Jens turned the switch on the gooseneck lamp on his desk, the bulb lit up.
The yellow circle of light from the old gooseneck lamp on the premier's desk left the man's eyes in shadow.
He saw Bobby's old gooseneck lamp still clamped to the edge of the table, and without thinking he reached out and pushed the button that turned it on.
The shape of the gooseneck lamp on the bedside table cast a dull shadow of itself on the headboard of the bed.
The bureau held a disarray of Scotch, plastic ice bucket, gooseneck lamp.
Near the base of the brass gooseneck lamp were two computer diskettes.
Through an open door, he could see Andretti, working in shirtsleeves behind a green goosenecked lamp.
He had turned the overhead fluorescent lights off and sat in a pool of yellow light cast by an old-fashioned goosenecked desk lamp.
He had arranged the old goosenecked lamp in the corner to shine on his face for effect.