Definitions for tailpiece

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tailpiece tail·piece

Spelling: [teyl-pees]

IPA: /ˈteɪlˌpis/

Tailpiece is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in tailpiece (aceeiilpt).

Definitions for tailpiece

noun

1. a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
2. Printing. a small decorative design at the end of a chapter or at the bottom of a page.
3. (in a musical instrument of the viol family) a triangular piece of wood, usually of ebony, to which the lower ends of the strings are fastened.
4. Also called tail beam. Building Trades. a relatively short beam or rafter inserted in a wall by tailing and supported by a header.

Origin of tailpiece

First recorded in 1595-1605; tail¹ + piece

Examples for tailpiece

There was nothing else in the rocket, except for the motor built into the tailpiece.

For a tailpiece to this chapter one may vignette one of those little affairs.

tailpiece to the account of the Arctic Fox, p. 274—a gibbet in the distance; in the foreground two boys hanging a dog.

This weapon is represented in the tailpiece to this chapter.

tailpiece to the account of the Opossum, p. 375—a gibbet in the distance; in the foreground two boys belabouring a donkey.

The rotation and the music stopped as the tailpiece of the rocket fell open.

As a tailpiece to this portion of the subject it is a pleasure to introduce a freak among the native orchards, as shown in Fig. 3.

Delightful humour is shown in an often used headpiece and tailpiece, showing villagers chasing a fox and returning home dancing.

Dead horses still lay in the road; the tailpiece of a broken cannon was yet there.

tailpiece to the account of the Whitethroat, p. 261—a gibbet in the distance.