Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs.

The bassoon developed from a Renaissance instrument called the curtal or dulcian.

Michael Brain plays curtal, baroque bassoon, recorder, oboe and sings.

This being done, he ran down into the dale, where he found the Curtal Friar walking by the water side.

Our Friar, however, is undoubtedly so called from his Curtal dogs, or curs, as we now say."

Friar Tuck, a curtal friar, is the band's chaplain, treasurer and chef.

The bassoon (or more properly in this era, the dulcian or curtal) was to be found in at least six sizes.

The third (the "Curtal Friar") and the fourth (the "Butcher"), also probably have late medieval origins.

The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems.

Pied Beauty (a curtal sonnet)

Curtal sonnet (invented by G. M. Hopkins)

It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer.

In 1731 we also find the Hoboys of the Honourable Artillery Company, which consisted of three oboes, a curtal "and no more".

A fighting friar appears in the ballad "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar", though he is not named.

Little John did so bestir himself, that the Curtal Friar, admiring at his courage and his nimbleness, did ask him who he was.

Andrew Watts (Flemish bagpipes, shalmes, curtal, recorder, melodica, kazoo, vocals)

COURTEAU, curtal, small horse with docked tail.

For example, he included "The Adventure with the Curtal Friar" in the narrative order to reintroduce Friar Tuck.

In Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (Child Ballad 123), Will Scarlet tells Robin of the friar, resulting in their encounter.

However, unlike the curtal sonnet, a Hopkins invention which is a 10 -line form with precisely the same proportions as a Petrarchan sonnet, his caudate sonnet is a full sonnet unmodified but with an extra six lines.

Robin Hood, coming near unto him, alighted from his horse, which he tied to a thorn that grew hard by, and looking wistfully on the Friar, said unto him, "Carry me over the water, thou Curtal Friar, or else thy life lies at the stake."

Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote several major sonnets, often in sprung rhythm, such as "The Windhover," and also several sonnet variants such as the 10 -line curtal sonnet "Pied Beauty" and the 24-line caudate sonnet "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire."

The new instrument is often referred to as the dulcian, and was called curtal in England, fagott or fagotto in Germany and Italy, and bajón in Spain, and it became very popular as a general-purpose bass instrument, even in refined settings where shawms were considered inappropriate.

He gives Alan's sweetheart the name Ellen, and introduces Friar Tuck into the story; Tuck is sought out specifically as the only priest who will perform the wedding in defiance of the bishop, and therefore, this tale is combined with that of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar.

That is, the first eight lines of a sonnet are translated into the first six lines of a curtal sonnet and the last six lines of a sonnet are translated into the last four and a half lines of a curtal sonnet.

For this reason, the Curtal, with a folded bore, was often used to replace the bass shawm.

CURTAL, dog with docked tail, of inferior sort.