or taylor, intj. (old).—A fall on the breech; a PRAT-FALL (q.v.); and (2) an exclamation on falling, or unexpectedly sitting down on one’s TAIL (q.v.). [Cf. CRUPPER (or CROPPER), HEADER, etc.].
1592. SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii. 1.
| Sometime for three-foot stool [she] mistaketh me, | |
| Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, | |
| And, TAILER, cries! |
