bobtail
noun
a short or docked tail.
Example Sentences
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It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser."
From Time Magazine Archive
If it does, there will be problems worse than the possibility of a bobtailed Olympics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Historicus presents a scholar's brief packed with bobtailed quotations of tortured Marxist prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew a farmer in New York who had a very large bobtailed churn-dog by the name of Cuff.
From Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs
