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fish-tail

fish-tail is the alternative spelling of fishtail.

Meaning of fishtail

Noun

fishtail (plural fishtails)

  1. The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
  2. The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
  3. A kind of chisel with a flared blade.

See all 6 meanings of fishtail

Forms of fish-tail

pluralfish-tails

Questions about fish-tail

What is fish-tail the alternative spelling of?
Fish-tail is the alternative spelling of fishtail.

Words near fish-tail in the dictionary

  1. fish-scales
  2. fish-skin
  3. fish-skin disease
  4. Fish-skin Tartar
  5. fish-skins
  6. fish-tail
  7. fish-tails
  8. fish-trap
  9. fish-traps
  10. fish-wrap
  11. fish-wrapper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fish-tail (page history and authors); fishtail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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