Definitions for fantail

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fantail fan·tail

Spelling: [fan-teyl]

IPA: /ˈfænˌteɪl/

Fantail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in fantail (aafilnt).

Definitions for fantail

noun

1. a tail, end, or part shaped like a fan.
2. one of a breed of domestic pigeons, having a fan-shaped tail.
3. any of various small birds having fanlike tails, as the Old World flycatchers of the genus Rhipidura and the American wood warblers of the genus Euthlypis.
4. fantail goldfish.
5. Building Trades, Architecture. a structure or structural member having a number of radiating parts, as an arch centering.
6. Nautical. the part of a rounded stern extending abaft the aftermost perpendicular; rounded counter. the area within this.
7. Western U.S. a mustang.

adjective

1. Cookery. (of shrimp) shelled, split almost through, and flattened slightly before cooking.

Origin of fantail

First recorded in 1720-30; fan¹ + tail¹

Examples for fantail

This diagram is a representation of the third kind I mentioned—the fantail.

Also a book with very moderately good drawings of fantail and Barb, but I very much doubt whether worth the trouble of enlarging.

One of them wore a fantail cap, and held a shovel and dust-basket.

A hat similar to that of a dustman or coalheaver, which is called a fantail.

Perhaps the entire absence of the oil-gland in fantail pigeons may be connected with the great development of their tails.

The fantail, however, contained neither, and was constitutionally ccbb.

At the Summer School, a fantail spent some time each day in the dining-tent.

Marie Antoinette's hoop is not bigger than Mrs. fantail's flounces.

For your life, build no fantail overhang on a craft going offshore.

Only about half a dozen, but all of them have fantail tomahawks and clubs.