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Meanings of wry neck in English

A painful muscular contracture of the neck.

        Usage of wry neck in English
        1
        He coughed and strangled, felt his throat, and made wry neck-movements indicative of injury.
        The Mutiny of the Elsinore
        2
        He'd probably have got away with it, if he hadn't had that wry neck.
        One of Ours
        3
        I'd like to wring his wry neck for him.
        Frontier Boys in Frisco
        4
        Torticollis (stiff or wry neck).-Itis usually on the side or back of the neck.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        5
        The spinal accessory occasionally may be divided before it enters the sterno-mastoid in cases of spasmodic wry neck, with great advantage.
        A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior St...
        6
        The house-surgeon at the hospital has just said that M. de Chandour will have a wry neck for the rest of his days.
        Two Poets
        7
        Treatment for Stiff Neck.-WryNeck, (torticollis).-Warmthapplied either dry or moist as hot salt bag or fomentations of hops, etc.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        8
        "It omitted Alexander's wry neck," said Hope.
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