“He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.”
“The little house was on a dead-end lane on a neck of land extending into Oyster Bay.”
“The second island was also barely separated from the bottom of Grand Bay by a narrow neck of water flowing into the bottom of Port aux Basques Harbour.”
necking
A behavior among male giraffes where they hold combat for social dominance using their necks as weapons.