rat-tail

British  

noun

1. another name for grenadier

2. 1. a horse's tail that has no hairs

   2. a horse having such a tail

3. a style of spoon in which the line of the handle is prolonged in a tapering moulding along the back of the bowl

4. a kind of woodworking or metalworking file

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Example Sentences

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

You can bend a rat-tail file or ice pick in a vise to fashion a tool.

From Time Magazine Archive

A rat-tail file or de-burring tool can be used�as long as you smooth all roughness around the hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The satisfactory cutting of this groove is not a very easy matter, but if its position is first carefully marked, a long rat-tail file may be made to plough it out neatly and regularly.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.