Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece forming an end; an appendage.
- n. Printing An engraving or a design placed as an ornament at the end of a chapter or at the bottom of a page.
- n. Architecture A beam tailed into a wall. Also called tail beam.
- n. Music A triangular piece of ebony to which the lower ends of the strings of a violin or other related instruments are attached.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A piece forming a tail; a piece at the end; an appendage. Specifically— A small decorative engraving in the blank space at the end of a chapter.
- n. In zoology, one of the parts or pieces composing the pygidium of an insect.
Wiktionary
- n. An appendage or appendix
- n. music A triangular piece of metal or ebony to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end
- n. architecture A short joist between a header and a wall
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A piece at the end; an appendage.
- n. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See
Illust. of Header. - n. (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
- n. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
- n. (Locks) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.
- n. The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. appendage added to extend the length of something
Etymologies
- tail + piece (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm having difficulty getting a 'current' standard Lebeda tailpiece which is a much bigger problem,”
“In truth, the Cold War was a tailpiece of World War II in Europe, and thus Eisenhower's labors flowed naturally from Roosevelt's.”
“The sticker on the tailpiece of my hardtail clashes with everything.”
“I put a snob sticker on my tailpiece but it dissolved in rain.”
“One of Bewick's specialties was the tailpiece, a small spot illustration filling the empty space at the end of a chapter.”
“Cryptic BBC 2 'Newsnight' tailpiece squeeezed in at the end was on the BURQA after long rambling repeat of BBC propaganda about 'climate change again.”
“I shall add strings so that there are twelve, some attached to the tailpiece and some on the fingerboard, in perfect and consummate harmony.”
“That's because the number of interior illustrations has been upped twice and I've decided to include tailpiece illustrations as well as the full-page versions.”
“However, he is sent on a flight to Newfoundland, where another Reindeer crashed, to located wreckage that will prove his assertions of the weak stress points of the tailpiece.”
“The new plane is called the Reindeer, and the unusual tailpiece with the double row of wings does sort of resemble an antler.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tailpiece’.
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Guitarist's Glossary
frets, fretboard, neck, peghead, headstock, tuners, tuning machines, strings, bridge, tremolo, whammy bar, sound hole and 201 more...
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Violin parts
Meronyms for violin.
fingerboard, nut, bout, f hole, tailpiece, neck, scroll, pegbox, bridge, bass bar, sound post, belly and 3 more...
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Violins
scroll, neck, bridge, fingerboard, tailpiece, shoulder rest, chin rest, pegs, strings, body, f-holes, sound post and 29 more...
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Luthier's Craft
Parts of stringed instruments, especially guitars
courses, binding, bout, bracing, bridge, f hole, fingerboard, fretboard, frets, headstock, heel, inlays and 13 more...
Tweets
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skipvia On a guitar, the device on the lower bout that anchors the tail end of the strings. Nov 15, 2007