Meanings
alternative pig-tailed
- not comparableHaving a pigtail.
Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time1 more example
It was really fine, the first part in Australia, the two last in China, the latter particularly good, the burning of the English factories in Canton quite life-like, the Chinese buildings well portrayed, and those fellows, those rat-eating, chop-sticky, pig-tailed Chinamen, have an idea or two about living.
1901, Gail Hamilton, edited by H. Augusta Dodge, Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 179 - not comparablebusinessConnected by means of a short additional wire.
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