tail-switching love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A method of switching trains at terminal stations.

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Examples

  • Most of us have seen such a horse, seemingly on the gradual slip into oblivion, whose very tail-switching was so rhythmic and regular as to fit in, in absolute harmony, with the swelling waves of sleep and measured breathing and all that sort of thing.

    Stubble George Looms 1906

  • A pretty, Caldecott-like moment, or rather minute, when the huntsmen stood on the green lawn round the moving, tail-switching, dapple mass of hounds; and the red coats trotted one by one from behind the screens of bare trees, delicate lilac against the slowly moving grey sky.

    Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895

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