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What is a rat-tail?

What is a rat-tail? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (slang) A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
  2. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  3. A fish, the California chimera, Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei.
  4. Any fish of the genus Macrourus; a grenadier.
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Cells were seeded on rat-tail collagen I-coated plates for 24 h before indicated treatments.
It is filed out with a rat-tail file until it is large enough to admit the tube very tightly.
In addition the rat-tail is frequently of poor proportion and there is a viable seam.
The rat-tail file he was carrying was driven into his side, making a wound from which he died in two hours.
It was pulled back into a short rat-tail, braded and tied with a blue band, the rest was short, an almost shaved look on the sides.
Now pipe down or I'll drag you off by that rat-tail of yours.

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