collar

Etymology

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse.

noun

1. Clothes that encircle the neck.
   1. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
   2. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
   3. A chain worn around the neck.
   4. A similar detachable item.
   5. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
   6. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
      Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
   7. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
   8. (archaic) A hangman's knot.
2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
   a collar of brawn
3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
   1. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
   2. (architecture) A ring or cincture.
   3. (architecture) A collar beam.
   4. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
7. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
8. (slang) An arrest.
   The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man. 2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order
9. (finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

verb

1. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
2. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
   Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
3. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
4. (transitive) To steal.
   "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in the brine. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52
5. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
6. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
7. (figurative, transitive) To bind in conversation.
   I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
8. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
9. (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.