[
UK
/fˈɑːnteɪl/
]
[ US /ˈfænˌteɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfænˌteɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
How To Use fantail In A Sentence
- Fantailed and puffed out, head glowing red, white, and blue like a neon sign, the tom is as formidable as any animal I've ever faced. How to Take Gobblers with a Bow
- Parlier, the most experienced, triaged the patients on the fantail in the order they needed to be evacuated - the most serious first - and passed them forward on the starboard side to Doc Moser.
- SEAL snipers, who were positioned on a deck at the stern of the Bainbridge, an area known as the fantail, had the three pirates in their sights. Abu muqawama
- Growing around them were matai, totara and rimu trees, home to native pigeons, tui, bellbirds, and fantails.
- Now that precisely coincides with the 'fantail' deer which some old-time hunters of my acquaintance say they have killed in the Black Hills country, though scientists say there never was any fantail deer. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri
- They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys.
- There we were introduced to matai and totara and other natives, and also to birds - tomtits, warblers and fantails.
- I have been asking around to see if anyone has seen two white fantail doves.
- Lamarck's Philosophie zoologique mentions the great variety of animal and plant forms produced under human cultivation (Lamarck even anticipated Darwin in mentioning fantail pigeons!
- This year I did observe two little fantails collecting spider web from around the house itself and visiting a nearby avocado sapling that had grown from a carelessly thrown stone last year - or maybe the year before.