rat-tail

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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

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

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