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Ringtail   Listen
noun
Ringtail  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
2.
(Naut.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; called also ringsail.
Ringtail boom (Naut.), a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.





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"Ringtail" Quotes from Famous Books



... were not,—hang em!]—as I was coming out of the church I felt a feller punch me in the back—so I turned round to hit him back, when I see the feller, as had stood by me in the ranks the day before, all covered over with dirt, and mad as a ringtail hornet. ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... her dad are millionaires! I suppose you're trying to rub in your exalted social position! Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor, Henry T., doesn't even call it a 'Tux.'! He calls it a 'bobtail jacket for a ringtail monkey,' and you couldn't get him into one unless you ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis


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