NAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nape mean? 

• NAPE (noun)
  The noun NAPE has 1 sense:

1. the back side of the neck

  Familiarity information: NAPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The back side of the neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

nape; nucha; scruff

Hypernyms ("nape" is a kind of...):

back end; backside; rear (the side of an object that is opposite its front)

Holonyms ("nape" is a part of...):

cervix; neck (the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body)

 Context examples 

When he overtook White Fang, he reached down and by the nape of the neck lifted him clear of the water.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

On the fourth day, lame and sore, scarcely able to see, so closed were his eyes, he was haled from his bunk by the nape of the neck and set to his duty.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the big Dutchman frustrated him, seizing him by the nape of the neck and dancing him up and down.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)