Crossword clues for fantail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fantail goldfish \fan"tail` gold"fish\, n. (Zo["o]l.) a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several birds, of the genus ''Rhipidura'', from Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 2 Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail. 3 Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail. 4 (context nautical English) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship
WordNet
n. an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
Wikipedia
Fantails are small insectivorous birds of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent belonging to the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae. Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian willie wagtail is a little larger, and, though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing, concentrates equally on terrestrial prey.
The true wagtails are part of the genus Motacilla in the family Motacillidae and are not close relatives of the fantails.
Fantail may refer to:
- Fantail, birds of the genus Rhipidura and subfamily Rhipidurinae.
- Fantail (goldfish), a breed of goldfish
- Fantail (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon
Fantail is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It is named after the fantail breed of pigeon, which Masami Akita raises.
The cover illustration includes part of the engraving "The Temple of Music" by Robert Fludd. The same engraving was used on the cover of Barbed Wire Maggots by Borbetomagus, who Akita has named as one of his favorite bands. The fantail illustration was reused on the cover of Kujakubato, the rear of Peace for Animals, and the background of the Merzbow website. The final track, recorded live in Toronto, is named after the Plastic Ono Band album Live Peace in Toronto 1969.
Usage examples of "fantail".
On the bridge, at the bullnose and on the fantail, lookouts were combing the sky with binoculars.
The men were dismissed from formation, and during the next hour the dogs were removed from their crates and taken by squads to the fantail, the aptly named poop deck, the raised deck at the rear of the ship.
One morning as Mooney made his tour all dressed out in his whites, he climbed the ladder to the fantail while the dogs were relieving themselves on the deck.
He would stand on the fantail and harangue whoever would listen, flannelmouthed through aching gums.
The sprawling red brick timbered cottage faced the river and she had walked round to the front and was staring up at the drunken angles of the pantiled roof where a couple of fantail doves were strutting their stuff.
To quickly get intercepts from the ship to NSA, a unique sixteen-foot dish-shaped antenna was installed on its fantail.
But to extend the hypothesis so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to me rash in the extreme.
The two Docs stood silent and impassive while Dopey, curled in the arm of one of them, appeared to be asleep, his great fantail overspreading his body.
Following well behind the first two, it approached the carrier just as the blast wave erupted from the Soviet carrier's shattered fantail.
For instance, it is just possible, if our fantail-pigeons were all destroyed, that fanciers, by striving during long ages for the same object, might make a new breed hardly distinguishable from our present fantail.
As he came abeam of the ship's fantail, the fighter lead began his turn onto final approach.
They wandered in various parts of the ship, sometimes leaning on the depth-charge racks on the fantail, or stretching out on the deck by the bow, watching the flying fish leap in front of the rising and falling bow and listening to the Caribbean race by through the hawse pipes.
Then it slewed sideways, its hood plowing into the piled snow at the side of the drive, sending up a fantail of white.
I carefully measured the proportions (but will not here give details) of the beak, width of mouth, length of nostril and of eyelid, size of feet and length of leg, in the wild stock, in pouters, fantails, runts, barbs, dragons, carriers, and tumblers.
Alone, they gave a moment to a fierce hug and then put on their official faces, plus their oilskins and sou'westers, tying the cords under their chins as they went up the companionway to the fantail deck.