The part of an axle that passes through the hub of the wheel; also, a diminished part of any shaft resting in a hearing, The constricted part joining the knob to the breech of a gun, The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk, intransitive verb_ colloq. To kiss and caress amorously, intransitive verb_ To kiss and caress amorously, To strangle or decapitate (a fowl)