Definitions for rat-tail

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Spelling: [rat-teyl]
IPA: /ˈrætˌteɪl/

Rat-Tail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in rat-tail (-aailrtt).

Definitions for rat-tail

noun

  1. grenadier (def 4).

Origin of rat-tail

First recorded in 1695-1705

Examples for rat-tail

It is filed out with a rat-tail file until it is large enough to admit the tube very tightly.

We found the cargo to consist of 5,000 rat-tail files, of different sizes and descriptions.

Look out for your rat-tail, Jimsey, or that yere purple necktie will bite the dust, as they say in the storybooks.

It was laconic, but it sounded like a rat-tail file on steel.

The new style was sometimes dubbed the "rat-tail spoon," in derisive comment upon its long and slender handle.

The rat-tail file he was carrying was driven into his side, making a wound from which he died in two hours.

The rat-tail, which extended down the back of the bowl, was shortened into a drop.

It looks like a rat-tail file, but smokes better, some think.

Every fifth man carried a number of rat-tail files, which were to be driven into the vents of the cannon, and then broken off.

Old tin cans, bottles, dusty fruit jars, and piles of rat-tail cotton from gutted mattresses littered the place.

Word Value for rat-tail
Scrable

3

Words with friends

3

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