Definitions for Fishtail

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Fishtail fish·tail

Spelling: [fish-teyl]

IPA: /ˈfɪʃˌteɪl/

Fishtail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in Fishtail (afhiilst).

Definitions for Fishtail

noun

1. such a maneuver.
2. a gas burner having two jets crossing each other so as to produce a flame resembling a fish's tail.
3. a device having a long, narrow slot at the top, placed over a gas jet, as of a Bunsen burner, to give a thin, fanlike flame.
4. Jewelry. a setting consisting of four prominent triangular corner prongs to hold the stone.

verb (used without object)

1. to swerve or skid from side to side, as the rear end of a car.
2. to slow an airplane by causing its tail to move rapidly from side to side.

Origin of Fishtail

1400-50; late Middle English. See fish, tail¹

Examples for Fishtail

Yet either the batwing or the fishtail tip can be used in any common burner except the argand.

Small and with a fishtail and fins, he is a goalkeeping genius defying physical laws.

The 'fishtail' was a small trench-mortar bomb, which the Germans substituted for the rifle-grenade and used with great effect.

Hooyah followed within hailing distance, and they kept the same relative positions until they reached fishtail Gulch.

Cannon-mouth barrel, brass mountings and lockplate, fishtail butt.

Uncle John appeared unwilling to abandon the fishtail wenches, and countered with classical texts.

At times, too, he was active with his Grenatenwerfer, known to the troops as the Pineapples or fishtail.

It is necessary in this case to split it and join the two pieces with a fishtail splice in the handle.

The mast, of a chosen trunk of fir, was set upright in a log with ends shaped like a fishtail.