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vertical tail

n. the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft

Usage examples of "vertical tail".

Industriously, with vertical tail, he sniffed the seams, pawed the button tufting, and reached down behind the seat cushions.

More holes splattered the right side of the vertical tail and horizontal stabilizer.

Fifty feet above the floor, the stairs abruptly angled right, around the black horizontal surface of the elevators, protruding from the vertical tail.

What was even more remarkable about the aircraft, however, was the lettering on its vertical tail: u.

And Koko calmly stood up, jumped to the floor, and walked out of the room with vertical tail expressing his indifference.

The prey had four short thick legs, the head of a fish, and the vertical tail-fins of a fish.

A weird, needle-nosed rocket ship, with a pale yellow hull and a high, vertical tail fin, was hurtling straight toward them.

His body is plumed with symmetrical and majestic wings and a vertical tail of a bird.