fishtailed

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A form of fishtail — The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fishtail

    The distant signal is like the ordinary French signal No. 5, but at such a junction it has a fishtailed semaphore shut up in the post when normal.

    1939 December, T. S. Lascelles, “French Signal Aspects”, in Railway Magazine, page 415
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