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noun

Tailpiece n.

A piece at the end; an appendage.

(Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing.

(Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.

A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.

(Locks) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.

The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.

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Etymology of 'Tailpiece'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tailpiece" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the chapter," said Lousteau. "The fact of this tailpiece changes my views as to the authorship. To have his book got up, under the Empire, with vignettes engraved on wood, the writer must have been a Councillor of State, or Madame Barthelemy-Hadot, or the late lamented ...

— The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac

... skill that Squire Bean trusted his father's violin to him, one that had been bought in Berlin seventy years before. It had been hanging on the attic wall for a half-century, so that the back was split in twain, the sound-post lost, the neck and the tailpiece cracked. The lad took it home, and studied it for two whole evenings before the open fire. The problem of restoring it was quite beyond his abilities. He finally took the savings of two summers' "blueberry money" and walked sixteen miles to the nearest town, where he bought ...

— A Village Stradivarius • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... pieces 7 by 3/4 by 3/4 in., Fig. 5, B. This tail-piece should move smoothly back and forth with no side motion. Now get a block of hardwood 4 by 2-1/4 in., and 1-3/4 in. higher than the spur center when mounted on the middle of the tailpiece just described. At exactly the height of the spur center bore through this block a 3/4-in. hole, ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... small grasp of what Mr. Locke was writing about in his "Moonlight Effect." The tailpiece, by somebody else, is the best picture of ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... good-for-nothing." [Footnote: 2 Bk. VI, 488-489.] But this wistful admission, though it protects him against whatever was the Greek equivalent for the charge that he lacked a sense of humor, furnished a humiliating tailpiece to a solemn thought. He becomes defiant and warns Adeimantus that he must "attribute the uselessness" of philosophers "to the fault of those who will not use them, and not to themselves. The pilot should not humbly beg the sailors ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann