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tail-buoy 
n. one of the floats attached to the far end of a herring net.
- 1954 There in the shadowed calm before sunrise men leaned across the gunnels of flats, grasped the tail-buoys of herring nets. . . .
- 1954 There in the shadowed calm before sunrise men leaned across the gunnels of flats, grasped the tail-buoys of herring nets. . . .