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
You can bend a rat-tail file or ice pick in a vise to fashion a tool.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length I learned from Captain Stewart that all the guns had been spiked, that rat-tail files had been sent up for the purpose from one of the gunboats, with orders to spike the guns.
From From Fort Henry to Corinth by Force, M. F. (Manning Ferguson)
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