- a variation of rattail.
rat-tail
Britishnoun
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another name for grenadier
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a horse's tail that has no hairs
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a horse having such a tail
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a style of spoon in which the line of the handle is prolonged in a tapering moulding along the back of the bowl
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a kind of woodworking or metalworking file
Example Sentences
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The first boy I love has a rat-tail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
So Rust and Marty achieve some kind of middle-aged detente–Rust with his rat-tail stache and haunted eyes, Marty with his gut hanging over his golf pants.
From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014
If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump."
From Time Magazine Archive
First drill a smaller hole, and then with a 1/4-inch rat-tail file slowly open it out, at the same time rubbing a groove down the stern-post.
From Boys' Book of Model Boats by Raymond F. (Raymond Francis) Yates
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