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Bobtail

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Noun

1. bob, bobtail, dock

a short or shortened tail of certain animals

2. bobtail, old english sheepdog

large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain

Adjective

3. bobtail, bobtailed

having a short or shortened tail

Example Sentences:
'bobtail mare'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bobtail

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verb (transitive)
4. 
to dock the tail of
5. 
to cut short; curtail
noun
1. 
a docked or diminutive tail
2. 
an animal with such a tail
adjective also: bobtailed
3. 
having the tail cut short

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bobtail

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noun
1. 
a short tail or one cut short
2. 
a horse or dog with a bobtail
adjective
3. 
having a bobtail
4. 
cut short; abbreviated
verb transitive
5. 
to dock the tail of
6. 
to cut short; curtail

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bobtail

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n.
1. A short or shortened tail.
2. An animal, such as a horse, having a short or shortened tail.
3. Something that has been cut short or abbreviated.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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