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UK
/bˈɒbteɪl/
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NOUN
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
ADJECTIVE
-
having a short or shortened tail
bobtail mare
How To Use bobtail In A Sentence
- bobtailed" out of the ---- th, he had turned up at the old arsenal recruiting depot at St. Louis, clean-shaven, neat, deft-handed, helpful, to the end that an optimistic troop commander "took him on again," in the belief that a reform had indeed been inaugurated. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
- And as the bobtailed, long-necked chestnut, trying to get his head, jerked the left hand, covered by a thick dogskin glove, the doctor raised his voice over the hedge: Amy Foster
- Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp. War and Peace
- bobtail mare
- Finally, Mrs. Carrillo cleared things up for me, and this is what a bob-tail is in the Jingle Bells song: A bobtail is a shorted tail of a horse, dog or sheep. Christmas spirit
- Composed of one or more curves, angles, kinks or any combination thereof, the tail is created by a simple recessive gene which breeds true in any bobtail-to-bobtail cross.
- The bobtailed, long-necked chestnut, trying to get his head, jerked the left hand, covered by a thick dogskin glove.
- The disgrace of being parent to a "bobtailed" and condemned criminal was as the bitterness of death. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
- bobtailed" -- to be discharged or to be given a discharge without honor. Rhymes of the Rookies
- Every unincumbered piece of our property, the orts, dregs, and offcast of our operations, were made the subjects of transfers to the rag-tag and bobtail of Lattimore society. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
