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tail out
verb
- tr, adverb to guide (timber) as it emerges from a power saw
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He pictured Maizie as wearing overalls, a man's shirt with the tail out, a big slouch hat, and buckskin gloves.
A very demon of a horse was tearing along the road, his mane flying, his tail out straight, and his body almost to the ground.
This is a mighty puzzling proposition we're up against, and I can't make head or tail out of it.
I had been making strenuous efforts to pull the tail out of the cat that I might use it for a feather duster.
I sat down to read the thing, and by thunder, sir, I couldn't make head nor tail out of it!
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