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What is a tallboy?

What is a tallboy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.
  2. (US) A tall can of beer, either 16 ounces or one half litre.
  3. (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.
  4. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
  5. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
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Another is the lower part of an 18th Century tallboy with open base turned into a fashionable writing table.
Maggie, I think, is curled up in the third drawer down of the tallboy.
But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!
To prove the point I had a good poke around in my tallboy and found what I think is called a fisherman's hat.
The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase.
There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead.

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