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tallboy

[ tawl-boi ]

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noun

English Furniture.
1. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand. Compare highboy ( def ).
2. a chest-on-chest.
a tall chimney pot.
a tall-stemmed goblet.
a 16- or 24-ounce (454- or 680-gram) can containing a beverage, especially beer.
Tallboy, Military. a 12,000-pound (5400-kilogram) British bomb of World War II, designed to penetrate the target or plunge deep into the ground before detonating.

tallboy

/ ˈtɔːlˌbɔɪ /

a high chest of drawers made in two sections and placed one on top of the other; chest-on-chest
a fitting on the top of a chimney to prevent downdraughts

Origin of tallboy¹

First recorded in 1670–80; tall + boy

Origin of tallboy¹

C18: from tall + boy

There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead.

Facing the window and the sunshine was a facsimile of the tallboy chest which I had coveted so fiercely two hours before.

But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!

The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase.

Something more nearly approaching the genuine "tallboy" is shown in the coloured frontispiece.

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