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sprig-tailed, a. [f. as prec.] Having a sharp-pointed tail.
1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1141/4 The Horse is a sorrel Guelding, seven years old, sprig tail'd. 1698Ibid. No. 3368/4 Lost.., a sorrel Mare.., mealy Nose,..and also Sprig Tailed. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 34, I was on my little handy, sprig-tailed bay. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 39 A cuneate tail..is also called pointed, in contradistinction to rounded, as in the sprig-tailed duck. |