Wikipedia
Beavertail can mean:
- The tail of a beaver
- beavertail pistol grip: the grip style used on the Colt 1911 handgun.
- BeaverTails pastry, a trademarked fried dough pastry sold throughout Canada, as well as the United States and Saudi Arabia
- Opuntia basilaris, the beaver tail prickly pear
- Beavertail State Park, Rhode Island, site of a famous lighthouse
- Slang in meteorology for a relatively flat, broad inflow band attached to a supercell's general updraft
- A type of flatbed truck fitted with a ramp or ramps at the back for loading vehicles
- The Beaver Tail (railcar) parlor/observation car carried on the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha passenger trains
- A pair of observation cars used by the London and North Eastern Railway on the Coronation passenger train
- A type of snowshoe
The Beaver Tails were a fleet of streamlined parlor-observation passenger cars built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between 1934–1938. They served as the observation cars on the famous Hiawatha trains from 1935 until 1948, when they were displaced by the new Skytop Lounge. The cars' name was derived from the distinctive flat, sloped rear of the car.
Usage examples of "beaver tail".
With his ears held rigidly high and the nape of his neck bristling, he sank down on his broad hind parts and utilized his wide beaver tail as a support.
He stood on his hind legs, supported by his beaver tail, and tried to make a military salute.
Pucky's outer appearance resembled strongly that of an oversized mouse with a very broad beaver tail.
That night we swallowed a very scanty supper, laid down to sleep, and dreamed of beaver tail and buffalo hump and tongues.
Pucky really looked like a giant mouse with a flattened beaver tail.
Pucky hunched on his hind quarters and supported himself on his broad beaver tail, which looked like a large magnified spoon.
The hem dragged across the top of the snow, leaving a wide trail behind her, like a gigantic beaver tail.
I'm going to have to make a cooking pot, she thought as she spitted the skinned rabbit and laid the beaver tail on top to add its fatty richness to the lean meat.
THE BEAVER TAIL was skinned and sliced thin, then cooked in a skillet over the revived fire.
In general he squatted on his hind legs and supported himself with his broad beaver tail to keep his balance.
Now that's mighty fine eatin' Next to cougar, there's nothin' like beaver tail or buffler tongue.
It was wearing the uniform of a lieutenant of the Solar Fleet-obviously tailored to fit because there was even a special hole to accommodate its wide beaver tail.
There were twin bronze propellers at the stern, on either side of a flat appendage which the Russians called a beaver tail, or so the intelligence reports said.