Definitions for pintails

pintails pin·tail

Spelling: [pin-teyl]
IPA: /ˈpɪnˌteɪl/

Pintails is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in pintails (aiilnpst).

Definitions for pintails

noun

  1. a long-necked river duck, Anas acuta, of the Old and New Worlds, having long and narrow middle tail feathers.
  2. sharp-tailed grouse.

Origin of pintails

First recorded in 1760-70; pin + tail1

Examples for pintails

All of the first three species are abundant, as are also the scaup, baldpate, redhead and Bahaman pintail.

The pintail is an occasional autumn and Winter visitant, but never very common.

The movements of pintail, as just stated, are clearly regulated by the state of water in the marshes.

By the third week in August good bags of pintail snipe are sometimes obtained in Bengal.

The pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) are invariably the first to appear, but they visit only the eastern parts of Northern India.

The pintail's skipper never left the bridge for thirty-six hours.

The pintail flies well and rapidly, the wings making a peculiar and easily recognised swishing sound.

Among the earliest of the birds to forsake the plains of Hindustan are the grey-lag goose and the pintail duck.

This applies chiefly to wigeon, but we have frequently observed the same trait in pintail and occasionally in other species.

Just before noon on the following day the pintail passed close to a water-logged ship's boat.

Word Value for pintails
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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