simple past tense and past participle of high-tail it

present participle of turn tail

Alternative form of bristletail

e-tailing

(chiefly archaic) A slut or slattern; a slovenly woman.

Dirty, untidy, ragtag.

plural of tail-bay

(architecture) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder. / (architecture) The space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor.

A kind of sedge (Eriophorum vaginatum).

(zoology) Having the outer feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.