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Swerve, as on icy roads
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fishtail
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Word definitions for fishtail in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fishtail \fishtail\ v. t. (aeronautics) to slow down by moving the tail sideways, of an airplane.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. slow down by moving the tail sideways; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side. 2 (context intransitive English) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The jeep left the road and was fishtailing violently through a stretch of gravel as the fire truck thundered by.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In woodworking , a fishtail (also fishtail gouge or fishtail spade gouge ) is a type of chisel with a flared blade that resembles the tail of a fish. They are used for light wood finishing , lettering , skimming, and modeling. They can be used to reach ...
Usage examples of fishtail.
The Ducks came up holding fishtails but no boy, and their angry stomping soon mired them to mid-calf in slippery, stinking fish.
Two effigies of square-bearded men with fishtails instead of legs, crouched in a sphinxlike fashion on each side of the landing.
Even the Range Rover fishtailed around a corner or two, but Brody was an ace.
Patriot was fishtailing in about an inch of water, and he barely missed clipping the back of a big orange waste-hauler pulled up beside a building there.
The car shot backwards into Wood Lane did a handbrake turn like in the movies and sped away, northwards, fishtailing strips of rubber onto the road.
The Packard hurtles into the darkness, skidding on patches, fishtailing.
Alex assumed the fishtailed Hoka females to be mermaids, though the four mammaries were so prominent as to suggest ramming was still standard naval practice.
The warp point was a boil of bleeding capital ships and fishtailing strikefighters lit by the flash and glare of fighter missiles, and her own ship was sixteen light-seconds from it.
One of the chorines mooned me as the green Cadillac went fishtailing onto the detour.
She began to fishtail, but Barnum quickly adjusted the angle of the thrusters and she straightened.
He slammed on the brakes, and the Jeep fishtailed, losing traction in an end-to-end spin, and for a horrified moment he thought he was going to smash into the barrier—he knew he was going to smash—and he spun the wheel frantically, and the Jeep slid to a stop, the headlamps just a foot from the concrete wall.
He slammed on the brakes, and the Jeep fishtailed, losing traction in an end-to-end spin, and for a horrified moment he thought he was going to smash into the barrier-he knew he was going to smash-and he spun the wheel frantically, and the Jeep slid to a stop, the headlamps just a foot from the concrete wall.
A cat darted away from the legionaries, a fishtail hanging from the comer of its mouth.
The car fishtailed, rocked, and then it slammed at an obtuse angle into the front of the patrol car.
The Ford's rear end seemed to fishtail, the truck lurching, rising up and down on its shocks, then vanished around the curve.