GOOSE-NECK, in a ship, a piece of iron fixed on the one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whipstaff or the wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship.
GOOSE-NECK
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GOOSE-NECK, in a ship, a piece of iron fixed on the one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whipstaff or the wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship.