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trendle-tail

trendle-tail is the alternative spelling of trundletail.

Meaning of trundletail

Noun

trundletail (plural trundletails)

  1. (obsolete) A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.
    • 15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,”
      […] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.

Forms of trendle-tail

pluraltrendle-tails

Questions about trendle-tail

What is trendle-tail the alternative spelling of?
Trendle-tail is the alternative spelling of trundletail.

Words near trendle-tail in the dictionary

  1. trendione
  2. trendite
  3. trendites
  4. trendjacking
  5. trendle
  6. trendle-tail
  7. trendle-tails
  8. trendles
  9. trendless
  10. trendlessness
  11. trendlet

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