a. [f. as prec.] Having a sharp-pointed tail.
1676. Lond. Gaz., No. 1141/4. The Horse is a sorrel Guelding, seven years old, sprig tail’d. Ibid. (1698), No. 3368/4. Lost…, a sorrel Mare…, mealy Nose,… and also Sprig Tailed.
1853. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour (1893), 34. I was on my little handy, sprig-tailed bay.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 39. A cuneate tail … is also called pointed, in contradistinction to rounded, as in the sprig-tailed duck.
