GOOSENECK, noun goos'neck. In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.