Arresting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arrest |
Arrester
(n.) One who arrests. |
Arrester
(n.) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. |
Arresting
(a.) Striking |
Boat-tail
(n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. |
Can hook
() A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves. |
Cant hook
() A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end |
Cat's-tail
(n.) See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus. |
Cat-tail
(n.) A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin. |
Cross-tail
(n.) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. |
Daggle-tail
(a.) Alt. of Daggle-tailed |
Daggle-tail
(n.) A slovenly woman |
Dog's-tail grass
(n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait |
Drabble-tail
(n.) A draggle-tail |
Draggle-tail
(n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire |
Dragon's tail
() See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon. |
Fish-tail
(a.) Like the of a fish |
Hare's-tail
(n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. |
Hook
(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything |
Hook
(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns. |
Hook
(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain |
Hook
(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook. |
Hook
(n.) A snare |
Hook
(n.) A field sown two years in succession. |
Hook
(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle |
Hook
(v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks |
Hook
(v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies |
Hook
(v. t.) To steal. |
Hook
(v. i.) To bend |
Hook-billed
(a.) Having a strongly curved bill. |
Hook-nosed
(a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose. |
Kranging hook
() A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. |
Lion's tail
() A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus) |
Lizard's tail
() A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail |
Mare's-tail
(n.) A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain |
Mare's-tail
(n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls. |
Racket-tail
(n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped. |
Rat-tail
(a.) Like a rat's tail in form |
Rat-tail
(n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse. |
Rat-tail
(n.) The California chimaera. See Chimaera. |
Rat-tail
(n.) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2. |
Split-tail
(n.) A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family. |
Split-tail
(n.) The pintail duck. |
Tail
(n.) Limitation |
Tail
(a.) Limited |
Tail
(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. |
Tail
(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage |
Tail
(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. |
Tail
(n.) A train or company of attendants |
Tail
(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date |
hook shot
hook | a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket |
| hook | a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent |
| hook draw hooking | a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer, he took lessons to cure his hooking |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
| tail | the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body |
browntail
brown-tail moth
Euproctis phaeorrhoea | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States, pest of various shade and fruit trees |
gold-tail moth
Euproctis chrysorrhoea | white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
Virginia deer
white tail
whitetail
white-tailed deer
whitetail deer
Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
tail fin
caudal fin | the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates |
| tail feather | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
arrester
arrester hook | a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier |
| bench hook | any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing) |
| boat hook | pole-handled hook used to pull or push boats |
| cant hook | a peavey having a hook instead of a spike, used for handling logs |
crochet needle
crochet hook | a needle with a hook on the end, used in crocheting |
| cup hook | hook (usually on the underside of a shelf) for hanging cups |
dress suit
full dress
tailcoat
tail coat
tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
grapnel grapple
grappler
grappling hook
grappling iron | a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding, often thrown with a rope |
| hook | a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something |
| hook claw | a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something |
| hook | a catch for locking a door |
| hook and eye | a kind of fastener used on clothing |
hook wrench
hook spanner | a wrench with a hook that fits over a nut or bolt head |
| horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
| kite tail | a bob on a kite to provide balance |
| meat hook | a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung |
peavey
peavy
cant dog
dog hook | a stout lever with a sharp spike, used for handling logs |
poker
stove poker
fire hook
salamander | fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle, used to stir a fire |
pruner
pruning hook
lopper | a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper, used to prune small trees |
| rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
sickle
reaping hook
reap hook | an edge tool for cutting grass or crops, has a curved blade and a short handle |
spark arrester
sparker | a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack |
| spark arrester | electrical device to reduce sparking when electrical contacts are opened or closed |
stern
after part
quarter
poop
tail | the rear part of a ship |
surge suppressor
surge protector
spike suppressor
spike arrester
lightning arrester | electrical device inserted in a power line to protect equipment from sudden fluctuations in current |
tail tail assembly
empennage | the rear part of an aircraft |
| tail | (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head |
| tail fin tailfin fin | one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile |
| tail gate | a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end |
taillight
tail lamp
rear light
rear lamp | lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle |
tail rotor
anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
vertical stabilizer
vertical stabiliser
vertical fin
tail fin
tailfin | a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane |
| vertical tail | the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
coccyx
tail bone | the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes |
c buttocks
nates
arse butt
backside
bum
buns
can
fundament
hindquarters
hind end
keister
posterior
prat
rear
rear end
rump
stern
seat
tail tail end
tooshie
tush
bottom
behind
derriere
fanny
ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
bait
come-on
hook
lure
sweetener | anything that serves as an enticement |