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trundletail

trundletail noun: a dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.

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.
    • [A]uant you curs, / Be thy mouth, or blacke, or vvhite, tooth that poyſons if it bite, / Maſtife, grayhoũd [grayhound], mungril, grim-hoũd or ſpaniel, brach or him, / Bobtaile tike, or trũdletaile [trundletail], Tom vvill make them vveep & vvaile, […]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

Forms of trundletail

pluraltrundletails
alternative formtrendle-tail
alternative formtrindle-tail

Origin of trundletail

From trundle + tail.

Questions about trundletail

What does trundletail mean?
Trundletail means a dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.
What part of speech is trundletail?
Trundletail is a noun.
What is the plural of trundletail?
The plural of trundletail is trundletails.

Words near trundletail in the dictionary

  1. trundleheads
  2. trundler
  3. trundlers
  4. trundles
  5. trundles along
  6. trundletail
  7. trundletails
  8. trundling
  9. trundling along
  10. trundlings
  11. trundly

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