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tail-piece|ˈteɪlpiːs|
1. The piece of anything forming its tail or end; the piece at the end. Also fig.
Among technical uses are: the tail-pin of a lathe; in Mining, the perforated end of the tail-pipe of a pump, a snore-piece; in Stereotyping by the paper process, a piece of card-board or the like used to prevent the flow of the metal under the tail-end of the matrix; in Building, a piece inserted by tailing, a floor-timber of which one end rests on the wall; the last sclerite of the pygidium of an invertebrate.
1601Holland Pliny I. 243 In other fishes the taile-peece is in greatest request. 1723J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. K K 3v, Draw your Sturgeon;..cut your first and second Rand very fair, cutting the Tail-piece least. 1786Busby Dict. Mus. s.v. Tail-piece, the thin, broad piece of ebony horizontally suspended over the lower end of a violin, and to which one end of the strings is attached. 1843P. Parley's Ann. IV. 282 The chimney ended, as all chimneys do, with the sky for a tail⁓piece, and when Gibbo put his head out at the top, he..looked around him, and drew in a few breathings of pure air. 1847Webster, Tail-piece.., in a violin, a piece of ebony at the end of the instrument to which the strings are fastened. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xxii. 177 It is called the ‘coda’, or ‘tail-piece’, of the fugue. 1876G. F. Chambers Astron. 635 A tube sliding easily within the tube to which the rack and pinion is attached, and called the tail-piece, is employed for first getting an approximate focus. 1890Spectator 31 May, Toplady's hymn [‘Rock of Ages’] was written as a tail-piece to a controversial article, in which Toplady discussed John Wesley's doctrines in the matter of faith and works.
2. Printing. A small decorative engraving placed at the end of a book, chapter, etc.
1707Hearne Collect. 14 Apr. (O.H.S.) II. 5 In the..Bible..are Curious..tayl-pieces. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 188 Frontispiece and tailpiece to the catalogue of pictures exhibited in 1761. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. vi. (ed. 2) 124 A view of this wreck..forms a tail-piece to the present chapter. 1895C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iv. 101 My tail-piece to the last chapter has for its subject the back gables of..the Hall. |