Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pintail , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. The pintail duck.
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- noun US, dialect The
pintail duck .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Where they wear suits like Sam's spiketail," said Mormon.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Won't want folks laffin 'at you like they laffed at Sam, time he won fo' hundred dollars shootin 'craps an' went to Galveston where a smart Alec of a clerk sells him a spiketail coat, wash vest an 'black pants with braid on the seams.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Wright stands there in his spiketail coat, and he runs his hand down that old stirrup leather a time or two; and for a little while he can't say nothing at all -- me neither.
The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890
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Now, Old Man Wright, when he wore his spiketail coat, he had the same trouble with his tie that I had with mine.
The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890
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I never was in a spiketail in my whole life and I told him I'd die first.
The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890
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"Now then, old spiketail," said the starling, "keep your distance; none of your stinging tricks here, or I'll cut that waist of yours in two with one snip."
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn George Manville Fenn 1870
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(Rob Paulsen), blames herself when he is taken in by a passing herd of spiketail dinosaurs and goes off to be with his own species.
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'em, any mo 'than Sam c'ud be easy in his spiketail suit, or me handin' ice-cream at a swarry.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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