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tail out

British

verb

(tr, adverb) to guide (timber) as it emerges from a power saw

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Example Sentences

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It does that with a big splash, flashing its red tail out of the water.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022

They hold the tail out, to make the dog seem longer.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019

I personally can’t make head nor tail out of Rowling’s novels.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2014

Now kick your tail out of the top of the wave.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was that big and at the end of this circle he came to the surface only thirty yards away and the man saw his tail out of water.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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