betailv.
/bɪˈteɪl/ transitive. To deprive of the tail.Apparently an isolated use.
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1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond III. x. 192 [The sportsman] puts his heavy boot on the beast's body..and there both beheads and betails him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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