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单词 fan-tail
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fan-tailn.

/ˈfænteɪl/
Etymology: < fan n.1 + tail n.1
1. A tail or lower end in the shape of a fan.
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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [noun] > fan-shaped object
fan1599
dovetail1678
fan-tail1735
1735 Swift On Five Ladies at Sots-Hole in Wks. II. 379 We who wear our Wigs With Fan-Tail and with Snake.
1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 214 Turning the butt-end [of a sheaf] upwards, spreading out the ears, and making a sort of ‘fantail’.
2. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the form of its tail. Also fantail-pigeon.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > fan-tail
shaker1668
fan-tail1735
1735 J. Moore Columbarium 54 They [pigeons] are call'd by some Fan-Tails.
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. 148 The..fan-tails and the..powters are of my breed!
1841 Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 230 Runts, fantails, tumblers, and pouters.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 21 The fantail has thirty or even forty tail feathers, instead of twelve or fourteen.
1884 M. Crommelin Brown-eyes i. 3 The grazing deer, and the proud fantail pigeons.
3. A genus (Rhipidura) of Birds found in Australia and New Zealand.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Rhipidura (fan-tail)
willy wagtail1780
shepherd's companion1847
fan-tail1848
1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 227/2 Fantail. (Rhipidura.) A genus of Birds belonging to the family Muscicapidæ, and found in Australia.
1860 A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 645 Found a fantail nest (young ones) & a riroriro's with two young ones & an egg.
1882 W. L. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. 26 The Pied Fantail, ever flitting about with broadly-expanded tail.., is one of the most pleasing and attractive objects in the New Zealand forest.
1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xxiii. 356 A fantail perched on a twig near them and flirted its feathers.
4.
a. Mech. A kind of joint. Cf. dovetail n. 2a.
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1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
b. = fan n.1 6c.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail > type of
spring sail1835
spring sweep1919
patent sail1924
fan-tail1934
1934 Archit. Rev. 76 166/3 The elaborate invention of an ingenious Scot, by name Meikle, who, in 1750, conceived a method of turning the mill automatically so that the ‘sails’, ‘sweep’, ‘arms’—whatever pet name you care to employ—always faced the wind. It—the invention—was known as a ‘fantail’, and consisted of a fan of six to ten blades... Mounted on a spindle, and so arranged that if the wind should veer slightly, it strikes the ‘fan~tail’ which turns the mill through appropriate gearing until such time as the sails face the wind again.
1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. ii. iv. 74 By these three inventions—automatic sails, fan-tail, and governor—the wind itself has been used to counteract its own fickle and varying moods in man's service.
c. Naut. ‘The projecting part of the stern of a yacht or other small vessel when it extends unusually far over the water abaft the stern post’ ( Cent. Dict. 1889); so extended to larger craft. (Cf. overhang n.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > rear part of vessel > [noun] > unusually extensive projecting part
fan-tail1882
1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 174/2 The stalactites of ice..at the start lent the wheel and ‘fan-tail’ a novel beauty.
1943 J. Steinbeck in N.Y. Herald Tribune 19 Nov. 21/5 The boat..threw out a curving V of wake and boiled the water a little under the fantail.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 252/2 Fantail stern, a type of yacht stern in which the shell planking or plating sweeps up to a sharp point to join the deck planking... This type of stern has been almost abandoned in recent years.
1955 C. S. Forester Good Shepherd 70 Krause strode out on the wing of the bridge as the..gun at the fantail went off.
1957 Jane's Fighting Ships 1957–58 424 The aircraft crane on the fantail has not the capacity to handle heavy boats.
5. (See quot. 1874.)
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1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fantail, a joint; a gas burner.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fan-tail..a form of gas-burner in which the burning jet has an arched form.
6. attrib., as fan-tail-hat, also, simply, fan-tail, a coal-heaver's hat, a sou'wester; fan-tail gentleman, a wearer of such a hat, a coal-heaver.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
hat1483
wishing-hat1600
cockle hat1603
porringer1623
poke1632
custard-cap1649
bonnet1675
muff-box1678
Caroline1687
Quaker1778
meat safe1782
balloon hat1784
gypsy hat1785
cabriolet1797
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
Wellington hat1809
fan-tail-hat1810
umbrella hat1817
radical1828
caubeen1831
topi1835
montera1838
Petersham1845
squash hat1860
Moab1864
kiddy1865
flap-hat1866
Dolly Varden1872
brush-hata1877
potae1881
Pope's-hat1886
plateau1890
kelly1915
push-back1920
kiss-me-quick hat1963
pakul1982
tinfoil hat1982
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 243 The two fan-tail Gentlemen soon gave in.
1850 P. Crook War of Hats 47 Those heavers, too, of coals, with smutted face And fantail hats.
1877 J. Greenwood Dick Temple II. vii. 220, I fancy I see you..with knee-breeches and calves and a ‘fantail’, shouldering an inky sack.

Derivatives

Of a whale: To work its tail like a fan.
fan-tail v. intr.
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1851 H. Melville Whale xxxvi. 179 Does he fan-tail a little curious before he goes down?
fan-tailed adj. having a fan-tail.
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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > having fan-shaped extremity
dovetailed1721
fan-tailed1812
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 89 The dustman..doffs his fan-tail'd hat.
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xi. 211 A rather pretty bird the Fan-tailed Warbler.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2014).
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