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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Rat-tail

/(răt"tāl`)/ · Rat·-tail · IPA
01 a. Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
  1. 1.
    Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File. See: File
02 n. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  1. 1.
    An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.(Far.)
  2. 2.
    The California chimaera. See Chimaera.(Zool.) See: Chimaera