''to crane your neck'' question

[guilhermehm]

Can I just take off ''your neck'' in the expression?

''Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences''.

 

[Rover_KE]

I can't see 'your neck' in that sentence.

EDIT: Right — I get it: you're asking if 'crane' has to be followed by '...neck'.

No.

crane v

to stretch (the neck) as a crane does, esp. to see better:
She craned to see what had stopped the cars ahead.
He craned his neck to see who was ahead of him.

(Collins)