The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boat-tail \Boat"-tail`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large grackle or blackbird ( Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
Usage examples of "boat-tail".
You have a boat-tail of four space shuttle main engines here, attached to the bottom of a modified shuttle external tank, so the lower stage is powered by liquid oxygen and hydrogen.
A longer, heavier, solid bullet of boat-tail construction would provide far better performance than the regular .
These last, the Colonel thought, looked like boat-tailed bullets, dignified in death, and with the huge eye of the pelagic fish.
In the most daily, friendly fashion, Anne and snowy egrets and boat-tailed grackles and pelicans and blue kingfishers belonged together.
He shot only cartridges that he'd loaded himself: Sierra 175-grain hollow-point boat-tailed match bullets traveling in front of 63.
Now all that was left was a magnificent boat-tailed Rolls two-seater parked in front.