Chaser vs Tail - What's the difference?
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A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
* 2007 , David Oatman, Old Favorites, New Fun (page 32)
Originally, a horse used for hunting; now, a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.
* 2002 : Betting for a Living by Nick Mordin - Page 351
* 2003 : American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 by Avalyn Hunter - Page 458
* 2004 : Sports Ticket: Live the Action! by Sportsfile - Page 179
(archaic) A hunter.
Someone who chases metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
* 1863 : The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work By Virginia Penny
* 1971 : Living Crafts by George Bernard Hughes - page 36
* 1972 : Silver by Richard Came - Page 7
A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
* 1894 : Machinery (author(s) unknown) (Page 141)
* 1918 : Thread-cutting Methods: A Treatise on the Operation and Use of Various Tools and Machines for forming screw threads... by Franklin Day Jones (Page 32)
* 1994 : Handbook of Dimensional Measurement by Francis T. Farago, Mark A. Curtis (p.467)
A mild drink consumed immediately after a drink of hard liquor.
* 1947 : Skiing the Americas , by John Clarkson Jay, p.
(Israel) A shot of hard liquor.
(logging, obsolete) Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled - also called a frogger.
* 1900 : Pamphlets on Logging Equipment [author unknown] - Page 22
* 1913 : Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant - Page 219
* 1918 : United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the Committee on ... by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
(logging) one who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
* 1956 : Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber- Jack by Stewart Hall Holbrook - Page 184
* 1975 : Nobody Here But Us: Pioneers of the North by Fred Moira Farrow - Page 170
* 1985 : Logging and Pulpwood Production by John Kenneth Pearce, George Stenzel - Pages 242-243
One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
(nautical) A chase gun.
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
* (rfdate), Harvey:
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as , a long tail.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g'', ''q'' or ''y .
(chiefly, in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
The buttocks or backside.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
*, I.49:
(slang) The male member of a person or animal.
(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 13:
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
* (rfdate), Walter Scott:
(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
(surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(mining) A tailing.
(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
(architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in'' or ''into
(nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
* Fuller
To pull or draw by the tail.
(legal) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
In nautical terms the difference between chaser and tail
is that chaser is a chase gun while tail is to swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.As nouns the difference between chaser and tail
is that chaser is a person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases while tail is the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.As a verb tail is
to follow and observe surreptitiously.As an adjective tail is
limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.chaser
English
Noun
(en noun)- One student is the chaser and the other is the chasee. Give the chasee three seconds to get away and then allow the chaser to attempt to tag the chasee.
- "[I]t looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a chaser ."
- "Wild Risk...had his greatest successes as a steeplechaser rather than a flat racer... It is rare indeed that a 'chaser - even one as good as wild risk - makes a good flat sire."
- "Oh, that final furlong! It can be both agony and ecstasy. Anyone who doubts that should have seen the television close-up of Jim Lewis as his great chaser Best Mate came up the final hill at Cheltenham in 2004 to clich a hat-trick of Gold Cups. ... Best mate is the best steeplechaser we have seen for years and all being well will be at the Cheltenham Festival again in 2005 to try and make it four Gold Cups."
- "Mr B., heraldic chaser , says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing." (page 100)
- "H. & C., manufacturers of cloth and gilt buttons, say it requires some weeks to learn to chase the gilt buttons, which are done with small metal tools and a hammer. Chasers are paid by the peice, working ten hours a day, and some can earn $1 a day."
- "Flat chasing in sunken or low relief is a technique by which the ornament is formed by beating down the ground from the front. This is done in essentially the same manner as repoussé work, where the ornament appears in high relief, but the design is punched from the face of the silver plate. ... Sometimes, instead of applying a freehand design, the chaser covers the greased suface with a paper pattern in which the design is pricked with pins."
- "Chasing in general can be distinguised from engraving, in that the design can be seen on the reverse or inside of the pieces. Having outlined the pattern on the surface, the chaser cuts and at the same time slightly depresses the surface. A light hammer can be used in this process also."
- "In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread."
- "Many screw threads are also finished completely with chasers' of this type, although they are not adapted for extremely acurate work unless the teeth are ground after hardening, because the pitch of the ' chaser teeth is affected more or less by..."
- "The category of thread cutting tools inlcudes both the single-point and multiple-point [chaser type] lathe cutters."
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- "Cowboys in high-heeled boots teeter along its sidewalks, or push the swinging doors aside for a shot or two — straight, no chaser ."
- "...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "chaser " or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" to the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used"
- "A chaser' follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log. The ' chaser can signal to the road engineer at any point..."
- "and the chaser is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."
- "The rigging slinger'' hooks the chokers to the main line' the ''chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."
- A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.
- "When the turn arrives at the landing, the chaser' directs the engineer where to drop the turn by hand signals. The ' chaser then unhooks the chokers, gets in the clear, and singlas to reel in the haulback line".
- bow chaser'''; stern '''chaser
Coordinate terms
* (mild drink) (l)Derived terms
* ambulance chaser * prison chaser * skirt chaser *Anagrams
*tail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head'' and ''tail .Noun
(en noun)- Most primates have a tail and fangs.
- Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.
- A sequence is said to be ''frequently '' if every tail of the sequence contains .
- By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.
- They were wont to wipe their tailes .
- After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails''' were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent '''tail .
- I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
- The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail .
- "Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."
Synonyms
* ass, poontang, poon, tang, pussy, punaniDerived terms
* cat-o'-nine-tails * chase one's tail * coattail * cocktail * have the world by the tail * rattail * shirttail * tailback * tailcoat * tail covert * tail-end * tail feather * tail fin * tailgate * tail lamp * tail light * tail-off * tailpiece * tailpipe * tailplane * tail-race * tail-skid * tailspin * tailstock * tailwheel * tailwind * turn tail * wagtail * whitetail * yellowtailSee also
* caudalVerb
(en verb)- Tail that car!
- This vessel tails downstream.
- Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed , continued uncancelled.
- (Hudibras)
Etymology 2
From (etyl), probably from a shortened form of entail .Adjective
- estate tail
Noun
(en noun)- tail male — limitation to male heirs
- in tail — subject to such a limitation