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blacktail

Ruff \Ruff\, Ruffe \Ruffe\, n. [OE. ruffe.] (Zo["o]l.) A small freshwater European perch ( Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone perch, or striped perch.

Wiktionary
blacktail

n. 1 A fish: the ruff or pope. 2 The black-tailed deer (''Cervus'' or ''Cariacus columbianus'') of California and Oregon. 3 The mule deer of the (w: Rocky Mountains).

WordNet
blacktail

n. mule deer of western Rocky Mountains [syn: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus]

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Blacktail

Blacktail may refer to:

  • Blacktail, Idaho
  • Blacktail, Montana
  • Blacktail, South Dakota

Usage examples of "blacktail".

Brent was connected to the Blacktail, and the driller's gossip pointed a finger, but Anna had no way of putting Frieda into the picture.

As far as Anna knew, she'd neither seen nor heard of the Blacktail or any other gas well.

She'd laid out her thoughts, and they'd spent an hour going over reports from the Blacktail well, Brent's recommendations for concrete and pipe, and the desert road, pulverized to a choking dust.

Adding the Blacktail to the mix implicated half the brass in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

The Blacktail drilled not straight down as required by the lease, but at an angle, pushing their pipe deep into the protected land of the park in search of gas.

Armed with photos and an eyewitness, Holden could close down the Blacktail.

Given sufficient warning, the Blacktail would close up shop before Holden had a chance to investigate.

A warrant was obtained to search George Laymon's office and home, but no papers were found to indicate with whom on the Blacktail staff he'd been conspiring.

Opposite, two great mules crunched away at their grain, while in a stall alongside Blacktail's another pony, a dappled grey, also munched oats.

Instead ye would see Dara Riatha, and she is"—Galron glanced at Blacktail and Dapper—"two days north by pony.

Even so, she had tended to Blacktail since the filly's birth and did not wish to part from her.

Then she and Aravan set forth down the gorge, she riding upon Blacktail, with Dapper as a pack pony tethered behind, Aravan mounted upon a rust-red roan.

Once our dogs roused a blacktail buck close up out of the brush coulie where the ground was moderately smooth, and after a headlong chase of a mile they ran into him, threw him, and killed him before he could rise.

This pack scored many a triumph over blacktail, whitetail, and prong-buck.

A little information aboutwell, about the blacktail redhorse, if you please.