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shirttail

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ahiilrsttStarts with SEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fabric forming the tail of a shirt

Word origin

From shirt + tail.

Used in a sentence

  • According to Linder, one of the rituals of the hunt entailed cutting off the shirttail of a hunter who shot at and missed a deer.
  • She looked like the same old Molly, only more so, wearing Levis and an old cotton shirt with the shirttail out; she had a clothespin in her mouth and three or four more in the shirt pocket.
  • There was something — did you ever catch hold of the shirttail of a dream and try to pull it back into your consciousness?

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