tail
nounADJ.
long | short | bushy, curly, curved, forked, pointed | muscular, prehensile
VERB + TAIL
flick, swish, thrash, wag, whisk
The dog wagged its tail furiously.| dock
It used to be fashionable to dock horses' tails.TAIL + VERB
twitch, wag, wave
The dog ran out with its tail wagging madly.TAIL + NOUN
feathers, fin
TAIL + NOUN
section
The plane's tail section had broken off.| fin, light
PREP.
at the ~
the truck at the tail of our convoyPHRASES
nose to tail
Traffic which used to be nose to tail now flows freely.