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bobtailed

[ UK /bˈɒbte‍ɪld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a short or shortened tail
    bobtail mare

How To Use bobtailed In A Sentence

  • The most popular herding dog at the time was the Smithfield, a big, black, cobby, bobtailed dog with a long, rough coat.
  • I came home with three cats, two bobtailed sisters and a black-and-white. The Dirty Life
  • Now back to its white friend, trotting, bobtailed, across a recess between talon-like projections in the scarp. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes fur hats, bobtailed coats, or dirty panamas. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
  • The cars were little "bobtailed" receptacles, usually badly painted and more often than not in a desperate state of disrepair. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
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