Word Meanings - FORK-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Swallowwort
  See Celandine.
• Tailpin
  The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
• TAILBAY
  One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay. 2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
• Tailrace
  See Race, n., 6.
• TAILORMADE
  Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
• Birdseed
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• Tailage
  See Tallage.
• Tailstock
  The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
• TAILWATER
  Water in a tailrace.
• Tail-bay
  One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
• Tail-water
  Water in a tailrace.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
• Median
  Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
• Tailblock
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.

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