1733 S. Bowden I. 148 In equal Focus's then floats between, The central String, which guides the whole Machine, While, rudder-like, the Tail beneath is bound.
1851 G. A. Mantell v. §2. 421 The rudder-like, or heterocercal tail, is shown in many of the Ichthyolites.
1999 W. L. Heat Moon x. 436 Twenty-two-foot sweepboats (steered by long, rudder-like oars fore and aft, modification of nineteenth-century Ohio River flatboats).