Word Meanings - BOXTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

• Flyspeck
  A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
• Rudderhole
  The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
• Flybane
  A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
• Flytrap
  A trap for catching flies.
• Rudderless
  Without a rudder.
• Fly-bitten
  Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.
• Flyblow
  To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
• Machine
  In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley
• Rudderpost
  The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.
• Flyblown
  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
• Machined
  of Machine
• Rudderstock
  The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
• Flyboat
  A large Dutch coasting vessel.
• Machiner
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• FLYAMANITAFLYFUNGUS
  A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also f
• Fly-case
  The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
• Machinery
  Machines, in general, or collectively.

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