Usually means: End attachment securing violin strings.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word tailpiece:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. tailpiece: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tailpiece: Merriam-Webster
  3. tailpiece, tailpiece: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tailpiece: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tailpiece: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tailpiece: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tailpiece, tailpiece: Wordnik
  8. Tailpiece, Tailpiece: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. tailpiece: Wiktionary
  10. tailpiece: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tailpiece: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tailpiece: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tailpiece: Dictionary.com
  14. Tailpiece: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tailpiece: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tailpiece: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tailpiece: Rhymezone
  18. Tailpiece: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tailpiece: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tailpiece: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tailpiece: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tailpiece: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tailpiece: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tailpiece: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An appendage or appendix.
noun:  (music, lutherie) An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.
noun:  (architecture) A short joist between a header and a wall.
noun:  The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
noun:  The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
noun:  (printing) An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.

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