Crossword clues for fishtail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fishtail \fishtail\ v. t. (aeronautics) to slow down by moving the tail sideways, of an airplane.
fishtail \fishtail\ v. i. to have the rear end skid from side to side, out of control: -- said of automobiles or other vehicles.
Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish.
Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.
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 way.
WordNet
v. slow down by moving the tail sideways; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway"
Wikipedia
Fishtail may refer to one of the following
Biology- The rearmost fish fin or caudal fin
- Fishtail palm (genus Caryota)
- Fishtailing, a problem in car handling
- Fishtail Air; see List of airlines of Nepal
- Fishtail, Montana, a town
- Fishtail Point, southernmost point of Shults Peninsula in Antarctica
- Fishtail Lake, lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
- Fishtail Rock, a geologic feature on Hoi Sham Island, a former island near Hong Kong
- Fishtail Butte; see List of mountains in Stillwater County, Montana
- Fishtail Lagoon, a body of water in the Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes
- Machapuchare, "Fish's Tail", a mountain in Nepal
- Fishtail (tool), a wood carving tool
- Fishtail gauge
- Fishtail, the golden timing constraints company
- Fishtail parka, a type of anorak such as the US Army's M-65 parka
- Fishtail skirt
- Fishtail back trousers, a high back design for trousers that is designed for use with Suspenders (American English, Canadian English) or braces (British English).
- Fishtail wrap, a style of folding or draping a sari
- Fishtail (Quickstep), a Quickstep dance figure
- A form of the scrollwork graphic design
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 in tight places where a full-width gouge would not fit.
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.