different between chaser vs tail

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?e?s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?e?s?/
• Rhymes: -e?s?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) +? -er. Doublet of chasseur.

Noun

chaser (plural chasers)

1. A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases. [from 14th c.]
2. (archaic) A hunter. [from 15th c.]
3. A person who does the chasing on metalwork.
4. A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser. [from 14th c.]
   • 2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, page 351:

     "[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."

   • 2003, Avalyn Hunter, American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002, page 458:

     "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."

   • 2004, Sports Ticket: Live the Action! by Sportsfile, page 179:

     "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."

5. a drink drunk after another of a different kind
   • 1947, John Clarkson Jay, Skiing the Americas, page 115:

     "Cowboys in high-heeled boots teeter along its sidewalks, or push the swinging doors aside for a shot or two — straight, no chaser."

6. (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:

     "...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"

   • 1913, Ralph Clement Bryant, Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States, page 219:

     "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..."

   • 1918, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce:

     "and the chaser is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."

7. (logging) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
   • 1956, Stewart Hall Holbrook, Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber-Jack, page 184:

     "The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."

   • 1975, Fred Moira Farrow, Nobody Here But Us: Pioneers of the North, page 170:

     A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.

   • 1985, John Kenneth Pearce, George Stenzel, Logging and Pulpwood Production pages 242-243:

     "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".

8. (slang, historical) A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.
   • 1969, Robert Dean Klassen, The Tent-repertoire Theatre: A Rural American Institution (page 95)

     After the final curtain the orchestra played a "chaser" which was music played while the audience members not remaining for the after-show concert left the theatre.

   • 2009, Andre Gaudreault, American Cinema 1890-1909: Themes and Variations (page 113)

     Films had become a regular feature of the typical vaudeville program, ending most programs and occasionally serving as a “chaser” that encouraged audiences to leave the continuous programs rather than retain their seats to watch them a second time.

9. One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
10. Synonym of prison chaser
11. (slang) A person who seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality:
    1. (slang) A tranny chaser.
       • 2016, Michael David Freel, Trans-Oriented: A Guide to Love and Relationships (?ISBN):

         These types despise TGentlemen and insist that any man who is interested in TGirls is automatically a troll, a chaser, or just a gay man in denial.

    2. (slang) A chubby chaser.
    3. (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.

       Synonym: bug-chaser

       • 2016, An Undercover Look Inside the World of HIV Bug Chasers and Gift Givers:

         At any given time, there are often dozens of people actively posting online ads as “chasers” or “gifters” in San Francisco and elsewhere around the nation .. Though chasers and gifters are active around the world, many see San Francisco as a kind of mecca .. apps like Grindr and Recon, as well as the website Breeding.Zone, where gifters and chasers share advice and stories about their sexual experiences, make it relatively straightforward to meet people who want to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS — or to infect their partners.

Coordinate terms

• (mild drink): back

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Etymology 2

From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) +? -er.

Noun

chaser (plural chasers)

1. Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing. [from 18th c.]
   • 1863, Virginia Penny, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, page 100:

     "Mr B., heraldic chaser, says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing."

     "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."

   • 1971, George Bernard Hughes, Living Crafts, page 36:

     "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."

   • 1972, Richard Came, Silver, page 7:

     "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."

2. 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. [from 19th c.]
   • 1894, Machinery (author(s) unknown), page 141:

     "In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread."

   • 1918, Franklin Day Jones, Thread-cutting Methods: A Treatise on the Operation and Use of Various Tools and Machines for forming screw threads..., page 32:

     "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..."

   • 1994, Francis T. Farago, Mark A. Curtis, Handbook of Dimensional Measurement, page 467:

     "The category of thread cutting tools inlcudes both the single-point and multiple-point [chaser type] lathe cutters."

3. (nautical) A chase gun.

   bow chaser; stern chaser

Translations

Anagrams

• Arches, Ascher, Rasche, Schaer, achers, arches, casher, chares, eschar, raches, search

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?l, IPA^(key): /te?l/
• Homophones: tale, tael
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæ?l (“tail”), from Proto-Germanic *taglaz, *tagl? (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *do?- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *de?- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic ???????????????? (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

Noun

tail (plural tails)

1. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

2. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
3. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
4. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
5. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
   • 1862, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (volume 16, page 83)

     It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's tail, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.

6. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
7. (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
8. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
9. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
10. One who surreptitiously follows another.
11. (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
12. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

    Synonym: descender

13. (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.
14. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

15. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

      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.
16. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
17. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation

18. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
19. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
20. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
21. (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
22. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
23. (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.
24. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
25. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
26. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
27. (mining) A tailing.
28. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
29. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.

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See also

• caudal

Verb

tail (third-person singular simple present tails, present participle tailing, simple past and past participle tailed)

1. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.

   Tail that car!

2. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
3. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

   This vessel tails downstream.

4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

   • Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.

5. To pull or draw by the tail.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.

Adjective

tail

1. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

   estate tail

Noun

tail

1. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

   tail male — limitation to male heirs

   in tail — subject to such a limitation

Related terms

• entail

References

Anagrams

• ATLI, Ital, Ital., LIAT, LITA, Lita, TILA, Ta-li, Tila, alit, alti, ital, ital., lait, tali

Middle English

Noun

tail

1. Alternative form of tayl

Welsh

Noun

tail m (plural teiliau)

1. shit, dung

Derived terms

• maer biswail