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n. Archaic An animal with a docked tail.

n. Archaic Something cut short or docked.

adj. Obsolete Cut short or docked.

n. A variety of short-barrelled cannon.

n. A horse or other animal having a docked tail.

n. An early type of bassoon.

adj. Of horses, having a docked tail.

adj. Physically shortened; short.

adj. Abridged, curtailed.

adj. Curt; brief; laconic.

n. A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.

Short; cut short; abridged; brief; scant.

n. A horse or dog with a docked tall: hence applied to a person mutilated in any way.

n. A short cannon.

n. A musical instrument of the bassoon kind. Also written courtal, courtel, corthal, cortand, courtant.

To cut short; curtail.

adj. (obsolete) cut short

"“Name her not — and for an instant think not of her,” said the King, again straining the curtal-axe in his gripe, until the muscles started above his brawny arm, like cordage formed by the ivy around the limb of an oak."

short   

curtal friar    curtal dog   

curtal friar   

curt    brief    laconic   

crutched    lochaber    ophicleide    single-bladed    unfrocked    mithril    well-sharpened    abstinent    hammer-headed    ci-devant