Curtail vs Diminsh - What's the difference?

curtail

(en verb)

(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal

''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.

To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.

When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.

(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.

Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.

* Macaulay

Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.

* (animal's tail) crop, dock * shorten * behedge, control, limit, restrain

* curtailer * curtailment

(en noun)

(architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

Diminsh has no English definition. It may be misspelled.