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Fantail

noun

An overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship.

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"Fantail" Quotes from Famous Books

... say, "Where is her overhang?" They never crossed the Gulf Stream in a nor'easter, and they do not know what is best in all weathers. For your life, build no fantail overhang on a craft going offshore. As a sailor judges his prospective ship by a "blow of the eye" when he takes interest enough to look her over at all, so I judged the Spray, ...

— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum

... a cloud of spears sailed out of the mangrove swamp at me. At least a dozen were sticking into me. I started to run, but tripped over one that was fast in my calf, and went down. The woolly-heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head. They were so eager for the prize that they got in one another's way. In the confusion, I avoided several hacks by throwing myself right ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

... end of the month the white-browed fantail flycatchers (Rhipidura albifrontata) begin to nest. The loud and cheerful song of this little feathered exquisite is a tune of six or seven notes that ascend and descend the musical scale. It is one of the most familiar of the sounds that gladden ...

— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar

... Barb x White Fantail Black Barb x Spot[4] | | Dark x Dark Among the offspring one very similar to ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

Words linked to "Fantail" : afterdeck, overhang