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neck down

vb. (context firearms English) to alter a cartridge by forcing it into a smaller calibre and size.

Usage examples of "neck down".

Especially encumbered as the horse was with its own armor: scale mail covering the top of its head and its neck down to the withers, with additional sheets of mail protecting its chest and its front shoulders.

The creature moved its head back and forth in frustration, unable to bend its neck down far enough to reach him.

Short and thick, all right from the neck down, but imagine him at a ball or a banquet?

And after the basic bestial emotion drained away, lips dropped back over fangs and hair on neck down again and all that, I put the old logic center to work.

So did Lady, who snaked her neck down and trembled with readiness.

I'm paralysed from the neck down, and I hope it's from restraints.

It prances straight up to the lieutenant and kicks him a couple of times, knocking him flat on his ass, then bends his long neck down, shrieks in his face, and runs back into the jungle, using its head-bone as a kind of battering-ram to clear a path through the brush.

It was then and only then that she grasped his chin in her hand, turned his head sharply to the left, separating the most fragile of tiny bones and the long vital spinal cord, effectively rendering him paralyzed from the neck down, and gave him a razor blade vampire kiss.

Shown from the neck down the naked body of a woman, aesthetically very pleasing but revolting for other reasons that had nothing to due with her physical appearance and everything to do with her makers, filled the cover.

He bent his neck down to stare at Madoc, his sulfur-colored eyes wide with amusement.