Search for crossword answers and clues
Appendage added to extend the length of something
Answer for the clue "Appendage added to extend the length of something ", 9 letters:
tailpiece
Alternative clues for the word tailpiece
Word definitions for tailpiece in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tailpiece \Tail"piece`\, n. A piece at the end; an appendage. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header . (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Do you have an earth connection to the tailpiece or bridge? ▪ His tailpiece , most aptly, is Eric Gill's woodcut of an infantryman trudging along his Via Dolorosa. ▪ In fact, the embossed, gold-plated tailpiece looks almost subdued ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tailpiece is a component on many stringed musical instruments that anchors one end of the strings, usually opposite the end with the tuning mechanism (the scroll , headstock , peghead , etc.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An appendage or appendix. 2 (context music lutherie English) A triangular piece of metal or ebony to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end. 3 (context architecture English) A short joist between a header and a wall. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. appendage added to extend the length of something
Usage examples of tailpiece.
But it seems to me that in these days we have a tendency to confuse the arts, and forget that the novelist's business is rather to weave a plot and edify his readers than to fiddle away at producing a frontispiece or tailpiece in drypoint.
It had been hanging on the attic wall for a half-century, so that the back was split in twain, the sound-post lost, the neck and the tailpiece cracked.