noun
1 of an animal, a bird, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ long , short
▪ bushy , curly , forked , pointed
▪ muscular , prehensile
VERB + TAIL
▪ flick , swish , thrash , wag
▪
The dog wagged its ~ furiously.
▪ chase
▪
My dog loves to chase his ~.
▪ dock
▪
It used to be fashionable to dock horses' ~s.
TAIL + VERB
▪ swish , twitch , wag , wave
▪
The dog ran out with its ~ wagging madly.
TAIL + NOUN
▪ bone (usually tailbone )
▪ feathers , fin
PHRASES
▪ the tip of its/his/her ~
▪
It was black from its nose to the tip of its ~.
2 of a thing
TAIL + NOUN
▪ section
▪
The plane's ~ section had broken off.
▪ fin , light
PREPOSITION
▪ at the ~
▪
the truck at the ~ of our convoy
PHRASES
▪ nose to ~
▪
Traffic which used to be nose to ~ now flows freely.