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Mariott Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Typo?

Sailors, who used pine pitch to caulk their vessels and to keep their pigails togehther,

were called tars.

I have looked up pigails in dictionaries only to fail.

I'm so curious about what this pigail is. Maybe it's a typo?

Thanks in advance!
  

Top answer

Hi, I think a pig t ail is now commonly called a braid. Maybe one of the women here will correct me if I am mistaken. Here is a picture of a woman with two braids.

— Clive

  • Hi, I think a pig t ail is now commonly called a braid.
  • Maybe one of the women here will correct me if I am mistaken.
  • Here is a picture of a woman with two braids.
  • htm Sailors used to have one, at the back of their head.
  • 'Braiding' is the action of weaving the strands of hair together like that.
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Hi,

I think a pigtail is now commonly called a braid. Maybe one of the women here will correct me if I am mistaken.

Here is a picture of a woman with two braids.
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Thanks Clive!!! It was a typo.
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