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Rat-tail   Listen
noun
Rat-tail  n.  
1.
(Far.) pl. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
(b)
Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.





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"Rat-tail" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the Van Buren children appeared in the street with the little Chinaman. Nobody cried, "Rat-tail!" Nobody cried, "Washee-washee-wang!" He often rode with them in the carriage. People looked at him, to be sure, but only with interest—the fame of his accomplishments in the ...
— Little Sky-High - The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang • Hezekiah Butterworth


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