adv. [f. TAIL sb.1 + -WARD(S.] Toward the tail; also quasi-sb. (with to, from), the direction in which the tail is.
1617. Purchas, Pilgrimage, V. vii. § 2. 590. Their faces to the taile-wards.
1665. Hooke, Microgr., 162. The finger being rubb’d from the tail-wards towards the head.
1851. Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunt., l. 384. We were set astride on the bare backs [of the mules], with our faces turned tailwards.
