Meaning of trundletail | Babel Free

Definitions

A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.

obsolete

Examples

“15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,” […] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.”

“[A]uant you curs, / Be thy mouth, or blacke, or vvhite, tooth that poyſons if it bite, / Maſtife, grayhoũd [grayhound], mungril, grim-hoũd or ſpaniel, brach or him, / Bobtaile tike, or trũdletaile [trundletail], Tom vvill make them vveep & vvaile, […]”

“Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!”

“[…] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,”

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