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trindle-tail

trindle-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 trindle-tail

pluraltrindle-tails

Questions about trindle-tail

What is trindle-tail the alternative spelling of?
Trindle-tail is the alternative spelling of trundletail.

Words near trindle-tail in the dictionary

  1. Trinda
  2. Trindade
  3. Trindades
  4. Trinder
  5. trindle
  6. trindle-tail
  7. trindle-tails
  8. trindled
  9. trindles
  10. trindling
  11. trine

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