A dog with a curtal tail.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a curtal friar.    From Dictionary.com. 

Hold thy hand, good fellow, said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

` Hold thy hand, good fellow, 'said the curtal frier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

‘Hold thy hand, good fellow, ’ said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

Will keep a curtal to show juggling tricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Devil] Reference

She had transform’d me to a curtal dog, and made me turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

The curtal-axe is out of date!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number] Reference

A boon, a boon, thou curtal friar!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

And the spotted curtal coat so trig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

The curtal friar in Fountain's Abbey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference

There was he 'ware of a curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

The curtal dogs, so taught they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

There was he aware of a curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

There was he aware of a curtal frier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

That I will do, said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

‘That curtal friar in Fountains Abbey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

The curtal friar with his steel buckler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

The curtal friar had kept Fountain Dale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

The curtal friar, with his steel buckler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

My curtal dog, that wont to have play’d.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, 3] Reference

The curtal frier, with his steel buckler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

Carry me over the water thou curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

Whose man art thou, said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

Carry me over the water, thou curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Brave Old Ballads] Reference

Consider what a poor curtal we have made of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

‘That will I do, ’ said the curtal friar!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

‘A boon, a boon, ’ said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

This curtal friar had kept Fountains Dale165.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

Carry me over this water, thou curtal frier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

` Carry me over the water, thou curtal frier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

‘Carry me over this water, thou curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

` There lives a curtal frier in Fountains Abby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (B)] Reference

COURTEAU, curtal, small horse with docked tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference

‘There lives a curtal friar in Fountains Abbey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

‘Whose man art thou, ’ said the curtal friar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

‘Carry me over the water, thou curtal friar, 55.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar] Reference

I with ` gallant curtal axe, 'dressed as a youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie] Reference