rat-tail

noun

See grenadier
another name for grenadier
1. a horse's tail that has no hairs
2. a horse having such a tail
a style of spoon in which the line of the handle is prolonged in a tapering moulding along the back of the bowl
a kind of woodworking or metalworking file

Every fifth man carried a number of rat-tail files, which were to be driven into the vents of the cannon, and then broken off.

The rat-tail file he was carrying was driven into his side, making a wound from which he died in two hours.

It was laconic, but it sounded like a rat-tail file on steel.

It is filed out with a rat-tail file until it is large enough to admit the tube very tightly.

A venerable man in gleaming silks--a grandfather, by his drooping rat-tail moustaches--sat fanning himself.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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