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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tailpiece
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 in these surroundings.
▪ The bridge and tailpiece are actually two separate components, a sort of abbreviated version of Gibson's tune-o-matic system.
▪ There is a tailpiece to the Luton case.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tailpiece

Tailpiece \Tail"piece`\, n.

  1. A piece at the end; an appendage.

  2. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.

  3. (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
    --Savage.

  4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.

  5. (Locks) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.

  6. The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.

Wiktionary
tailpiece

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. 4 The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc. 5 The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.

WordNet
tailpiece

n. appendage added to extend the length of something

Wikipedia
Tailpiece

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.).

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.