endpin
[ end-pin ]
/ ˈɛndˌpɪn /
noun
the adjustable thin leg at the bottom of a cello or double bass.
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tail-spike [teyl-spahyk] /ˈteɪlˌspaɪk/ .
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How to use endpin in a sentence
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
British Dictionary definitions for endpin
noun
music the adjustable metal spike attached to the bottom of a cello, double bass, etc, that supports it while it is being played
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