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Keywords: laconic, brief

Curt; brief; laconic.

Keywords: tail, castrated, horse, docked, obsolete

A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.

(obsolete) cut short; "a dog with a curtal tail"

a castrated horse

Keywords: bassoon, sixteenth, england, musical, still

a family of musical instruments from sixteenth century England of which the bassoon is the only instrument still in use