fishtail

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
2. The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
3. A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of fishtail palm.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
2. (transitive) To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
3. (intransitive) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.

Sinónimos

ground test

propeller

screw

screw propeller

propeller-wheel

swishtail

Traducións

tête-à-queue

queue de poisson

cola de pez

Seitenruder bewegen

ذيل السمكة

queue-de-poisson

abbremsen

Fischschwanz

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈfɪʃteɪl/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: fisch tayle

In summary

From Middle English fisch tayle, equivalent to fish + tail.