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collar

[prob. influenced by F collier in this sense]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs.

a snare.

Quotations

1778

I asked the Indian where she was gone; he smiled, and told me, he supposed into the woods to set a collar for the partridge.

2n. — North

See quote.

See: collar ice

Quotations

1939

We were on the ice--what we call the collar because it is attached to the cliff edge of the land, and runs out maybe twenty feet before you come to the ocean ice and the tide-flow under it.