curtal
Archaic. wearing a short frock: a curtal friar.
Obsolete. brief; curtailed.
a 16th-century bassoon.
Obsolete. an animal with a docked tail.
Origin of curtal
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How to use curtal in a sentence
curtal is a small horse; properly one who hath his tail docked or curtailed.
"I am but a poor anchorite, a curtal friar," replied the other, pushing out for his side of the river.
Robin Hood | Paul CreswickA gret doble trottynge hors called a curtal, for his lordship to ride out on out of towns.
Horses Past and Present | Walter GilbeySome blackguard or other, I think it was Sybrandt, said, "A lie is not like a blow with a curtal axe."
The Cloister and the Hearth | Charles ReadeItem, double trottynge hors, called a curtal, for his lordship to ryde on out of townes.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things | Edmund Fillingham King
British Dictionary definitions for curtal
/ (ˈkɜːtəl) obsolete /
cut short
(of friars) wearing a short frock
an animal whose tail has been docked
something that is cut short
Origin of curtal
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