swallowtailn.

/ˈswɒləʊteɪl/

Forms: Also in some senses swallow's tail, swallow-tail.

Etymology: < swallow n.¹ + tail n.¹; corresponding to and in certain uses modelled on French queue d'aronde , †d'arondelle (senses 5, 6), German schwalbenschwanz ( 2b, 8, etc.), Dutch zwaluwstaart, Middle Low German swalekenstert, Low German swalkensteert, etc.

1. A tail like that of a swallow; a forked tail.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > forked

swallowtail1703

scissortail1969

1703 tr. Vitruvius & Vignola Theory & Pract. Archit. i. iv. 30 The Sabliers..joined together by Tenons, in the form of a Swallow-Tail.

1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 402 Two birds..with swallow-tails flying above the ship.

1842 G. Darling in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 10. 4 Smelts of the Salmon with their silvery sides, dark purply fins, and swallow-tail.

1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) iv The ‘passenger’ [pigeon]..looks not unlike the kite, wanting the forked or ‘swallow’ tail.

2. Applied to various animals having a forked tail.

†a. Some kind of fish: see quot. 1683. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]

whalec950

tumbrelc1300

sprout1340

squame1393

codmop1466

whitefish1482

lineshark?a1500

salen1508

glaucus1509

bretcock1522

warcodling1525

razor1530

bassinatc1540

goldeney1542

smy1552

maiden1555

grail1587

whiting1587

needle1589

pintle-fish1591

goldfish1598

puffin fish1598

quap1598

stork1600

black-tail1601

ellops1601

fork-fish1601

sea-grape1601

sea-lizard1601

sea-raven1601

barne1602

plosher1602

whale-mouse1607

bowman1610

catfish1620

hog1620

kettle-fish1630

sharpa1636

carda1641

housewifea1641

roucotea1641

ox-fisha1642

sea-serpent1646

croaker1651

alderling1655

butkin1655

shamefish1655

yard1655

sea-dart1664

sea-pelican1664

Negro1666

sea-parrot1666

sea-blewling1668

sea-stickling1668

skull-fish1668

whale's guide1668

sennet1671

barracuda1678

skate-bread1681

tuck-fish1681

swallowtail1683

piaba1686

pit-fish1686

sand-creeper1686

horned hog1702

soldier1704

sea-crowa1717

bran1720

grunter1726

calcops1727

bennet1731

bonefish1734

Negro fish1735

isinglass-fish1740

orb1740

gollin1747

smelt1776

night-walker1777

water monarch1785

hardhead1792

macaw-fish1792

yellowback1796

sea-raven1797

blueback1812

stumpnose1831

flat1847

butterfish1849

croppie1856

gubbahawn1857

silt1863

silt-snapper1863

mullet-head1866

sailor1883

hogback1893

skipper1898

stocker1904

1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 21 The green Swallow-Tail..a Fish not much bigger than a Herring.

b. A swallow-tailed butterfly.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio machaon

swallow-tailed butterfly1743

swallowtail butterfly1816

swallowtail1819

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > member of (swallow-tail)

swallow-tailed butterfly1743

swallowtail butterfly?1749

zebra swallowtail1855

swallowtail1869

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 416 Papilio Machaon. The Swallow-tail.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 314 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The swallow-tails, belonging to the family Papilionidæ.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 173 One bright swallow-tail, with blue wings, fringed with crimson.

c. A hummingbird of the genus Eupetomena.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

zumbador1758

sunbeam1769

black warrior1831

hermit-bird1837

Anna's hummingbird1839

jacobin1843

straight-tail1843

vervain hummingbird1847

wedge-bill1848

fiery topaz1854

sungem1856

wood-star1859

calliope1861

rainbow1861

sabre-wing1861

sawbill1861

swallowtail1861

sword-bill1861

thorn-bill1861

visor-bearer1861

warrior1861

wood-nymph1861

puffleg1869

calliope hummingbird1872

flame-bearer1882

shear-tail1885

plature1890

rainbow starfrontlet1966

1861 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ II. Pl. 42 Eupetomena Hirundinacea. Swallow-tail... This species being the most swallow-like member of the entire family of Trochilidæ.

1899 A. H. Evans in Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 435 Eupetomena macrura of Brazil and Guiana, termed the ‘Swallow-tail’ from its forking rectrices.

d. A swallow-tailed kite.

3. A name for the white willow ( Salix alba): also swallowtail willow, swallow-tailed willow (see swallow-tailed willow n. at swallow-tailed adj. 2b).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow

red willow1547

water willow1583

goat's willow1597

rose willow1597

sweet willow1597

French willow1601

siler1607

palm-withy1609

sallowie1610

swallowtail willow1626

willow bay1650

black willow1670

crack-willow1670

grey willow1697

water sallow1761

almond willowa1763

swallow-tailed willow1764

swamp willow1765

golden osier1772

golden willow1772

purple willow1773

sand-willow1786

goat willow1787

purple osier1797

whipcord1812

Arctic willow1818

sage-willow1846

pussy willow1851

Kilmarnock willow1854

sweet-bay willow1857

pussy1858

palm willow1869

Spaniard1871

ground-willow1875

Spanish willow1875

snap-willow1880

diamond willow1884

sandbar willow1884

pussy palm1886

creeping willow1894

bat-willow1907

cricket bat willow1907

silver willow1914

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §475 The Shining Willow, which they call Swallow-Taile.

1766 Museum Rusticum 6 81 The bright swallow-tail willow;..next to the Norfolk kind, it is the largest growing sort.

4. A broad or barbed arrow-head; an arrow with such a head.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head

angle-head1488

hook1488

swallowtail1545

flukea1600

fork1608

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 19 The one..hauyng two..barbes, lookyng backewarde to the stele and the fethers, which..we call..a brode arrowe head or a swalowe tayle.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 133 The English..sent off their volleys of swallow-tails before we could call on St Andrew.

†5. = dovetail n. 1b, 2 Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint

indenting1382

scarf1497

swallowtail1548

dovetail1565

mortise-piece1577

tenon and mortise1610

culver-tail1616

mortise and tenon1631

finger joint1657

breaking joint1663

meeting1663

mitre1665

scarfing1671

heading joint1773

dovetail-joint1776

butting joint1803

bevel-joint1823

lap-joint1823

lapped mitre1825

mitre dovetail1847

bridle joint1860

mortise1875

sypher-joint1875

keyed mitre1876

tongue-and-groove1882

saddle joint1948

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Securicla.., a swalowes tayle [1565 Cooper, swallowe tayle], or a doue tayle in carpenters woorke, whiche is fastnyng of two pieces of timbre..togyther.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Swallowes tayle,..a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together, that they cannot fall asunder.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 594.

6. Fortification. An outwork characterized by two projections with a re-entrant angle between them, suggesting a swallow's tail.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angular outworks

priest's cap1446

priest's bonnet1685

swallowtail1688

flèche1710

arrow1747

1688 J. S. Fortification 78 Hornworks..are much more in use than the Tenailes, Swallow Tails, or Priests Bonnets.

1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk i. 11 He..all your Out-works would Assail, With his Eternal Swallows Tail.

1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) Queue d'yronde, or Swallow's-Tail, a Detach'd or Out-work, whose Sides open towards the Head, or Campaign, and draw closer or narrower towards the Gorge.

1908 E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Woman 1 A little walled town with Ghibelline swallow-tails.

a. The cleft two-pointed end of a flag or pennon; also, a swallow-tailed flag.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > with cleft end

banderole1562

cornute1625

swallowtail1697

swallowtail pennon1891

1697 London Gaz. No. 3317/3 One with a White Flag, Swallow Tail at Main-top-mast.

1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 5 The Commander in Chief being distinguish'd by a red broad Pendant with a Swallow's Tail at his Main-top-mast Head.

1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 386/2 A yellow jack with a swallow-tail.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed xi, in Tales Crusaders II. 220 Methinks, instead of this old swallow's tail, we should muster rarely under a broidered petticoat.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 10 The Flag of the Guidon of Dragoons to be three feet five inches to the end of the slit of the swallow-tail.

1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 89 The flag..is sometimes square, sometimes a swallow-tail.

b. The cleft tail-end of a vane.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > wind-vane or weather-cock > parts of

swallowtail1842

vane-spindle1844

vane-pin1889

1842 W. R. Grove Correl. Physical Forces 32 A wind..will instantly arrange these vanes in a definite direction, the arrow-heads or narrow parts pointing one way, the swallow-tails or broad parts another.

c. A forked cut used in marking cattle on the ear.

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1644 in Arch. Maryland IV. 288 Swallow-taile in the left eare.

1845 Portsmouth (Rhode Island) Rec. 387 The Ear Mark of the Creatures..is a fork or Swallows tail on the Right Ear.

a. A swallow-tailed coat. colloquial.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of

coatee1775

swallowtail1835

claw-hammer coat1842

swallowtail coat1848

claw hammer1855

swinger1863

steel pen1873

jimswinger1895

Newmarket overcoat1960

1835 W. P. Frith Let. 2 May in Autobiogr. (1888) III. 38 I don't want a dress-coat; besides, I should look a regular guy in a swallow-tail.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 8 The green coat had been a smart dress garment in the days of swallow-tails.

1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 115 Mr. Golightly rose, divested himself of the loose coat he wore in the study, put on his black swallow-tail, and went down to the drawing-room.

1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 33 The boys..exchanged their tweed coats for the regulation swallow-tails.

b. The tail or skirt of such a coat. rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > tail or skirt

tail1532

coat-taila1600

lappet1726

sparrow-tail1888

swallowtail1894

1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey vi. 57 I banged roon' my hand, an' lo, there was but ae solitary swallowtail to the fore!

1913 Play Pictorial No. 130 The [ladies'] coat..slopes sharply away from the hips, and forms swallow-tails at the back.

Compounds

attributive. = swallow-tailed adj.: as in swallowtail butterfly, swallowtail coat, swallowtail moth, swallowtail pennon; also formerly applied to a cut of the beard with two points. See also swallowtail willow at sense 3.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > describing a beard

swallowtail1596

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > member of (swallow-tail)

swallow-tailed butterfly1743

swallowtail butterfly?1749

zebra swallowtail1855

swallowtail1869

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > urapteryx sambucaria (swallow-tail moth)

swallowtail moth?1749

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio machaon

swallow-tailed butterfly1743

swallowtail butterfly1816

swallowtail1819

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of

coatee1775

swallowtail1835

claw-hammer coat1842

swallowtail coat1848

claw hammer1855

swinger1863

steel pen1873

jimswinger1895

Newmarket overcoat1960

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > with cleft end

banderole1562

cornute1625

swallowtail1697

swallowtail pennon1891

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Astrologicall Richard,..most studiously compyled a profound Abridgement vpon beards, & therein..frutelessely determined, betwixt the Swallowes taile cut, & the round beard like a rubbing brush.

1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost (1872) 9 The vse of the terrible cut, and the Swallow-taile slash.

1745 Gleditsch's Teutsch-Eng. Lex. Schwalbenschwantz..a swallow-tail-carving.

?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 47 The Swallow-tail Butterfly is produced twice a Year.

?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 38 The Swallow-tail Moth..is bred in May and June.

1786 Pogonologia 27 Those different fashions of wearing the beard called, sharp-pointed, square, round, fan, swallow's-tail, artichoke-leaf, &c.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 245 The swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio Machaon, L.).

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 253 Our[apteryx] sambucaria (swallow-tail moth).

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iii. 36 Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats.

1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 279 Swallow tail scarf, assemblage à queue d'hironde.

1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green i. 7 The toga virilis of stick-up collars and swallow-tail coats.

1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 45 [The Police, 1836–47] wore swallow-tail blue coats.

1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company xiii The heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon.

Draft additions December 2016

A surfboard, snowboard, etc., with a tail which tapers to two points, providing greater control in manoeuvring; the tail of such a board.

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1973 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 13 Apr. 2/6 (advt.) Surfboards. Used 7’ roundtail, $50; new 6’2’’ swallowtail, $90.

1986 Surfer Oct. 102 What difference would a swallowtail make in comparison to a squash?

2003 T. Richards & E. Blehm P3 39 They even bought me a new snowboard, another swallowtail, a Sims..with high-back bindings.

2006 Carve Sept. (Surfgirl Mag. Suppl.) 23 My favourite board is a 5'11'' swallowtail with a nice pink spray job.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	swallowtail
释义	swallowtailn. /ˈswɒləʊteɪl/ Forms: Also in some senses swallow's tail, swallow-tail. Etymology: < swallow n.¹ + tail n.¹; corresponding to and in certain uses modelled on French queue d'aronde , †d'arondelle (senses 5, 6), German schwalbenschwanz ( 2b, 8, etc.), Dutch zwaluwstaart, Middle Low German swalekenstert, Low German swalkensteert, etc. 1. A tail like that of a swallow; a forked tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > forked swallowtail1703 scissortail1969 1703 tr. Vitruvius & Vignola Theory & Pract. Archit. i. iv. 30 The Sabliers..joined together by Tenons, in the form of a Swallow-Tail. 1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 402 Two birds..with swallow-tails flying above the ship. 1842 G. Darling in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 10. 4 Smelts of the Salmon with their silvery sides, dark purply fins, and swallow-tail. 1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) iv The ‘passenger’ [pigeon]..looks not unlike the kite, wanting the forked or ‘swallow’ tail. 2. Applied to various animals having a forked tail. †a. Some kind of fish: see quot. 1683. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun] whalec950 tumbrelc1300 sprout1340 squame1393 codmop1466 whitefish1482 lineshark?a1500 salen1508 glaucus1509 bretcock1522 warcodling1525 razor1530 bassinatc1540 goldeney1542 smy1552 maiden1555 grail1587 whiting1587 needle1589 pintle-fish1591 goldfish1598 puffin fish1598 quap1598 stork1600 black-tail1601 ellops1601 fork-fish1601 sea-grape1601 sea-lizard1601 sea-raven1601 barne1602 plosher1602 whale-mouse1607 bowman1610 catfish1620 hog1620 kettle-fish1630 sharpa1636 carda1641 housewifea1641 roucotea1641 ox-fisha1642 sea-serpent1646 croaker1651 alderling1655 butkin1655 shamefish1655 yard1655 sea-dart1664 sea-pelican1664 Negro1666 sea-parrot1666 sea-blewling1668 sea-stickling1668 skull-fish1668 whale's guide1668 sennet1671 barracuda1678 skate-bread1681 tuck-fish1681 swallowtail1683 piaba1686 pit-fish1686 sand-creeper1686 horned hog1702 soldier1704 sea-crowa1717 bran1720 grunter1726 calcops1727 bennet1731 bonefish1734 Negro fish1735 isinglass-fish1740 orb1740 gollin1747 smelt1776 night-walker1777 water monarch1785 hardhead1792 macaw-fish1792 yellowback1796 sea-raven1797 blueback1812 stumpnose1831 flat1847 butterfish1849 croppie1856 gubbahawn1857 silt1863 silt-snapper1863 mullet-head1866 sailor1883 hogback1893 skipper1898 stocker1904 1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 21 The green Swallow-Tail..a Fish not much bigger than a Herring. b. A swallow-tailed butterfly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio machaon swallow-tailed butterfly1743 swallowtail butterfly1816 swallowtail1819 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > member of (swallow-tail) swallow-tailed butterfly1743 swallowtail butterfly?1749 zebra swallowtail1855 swallowtail1869 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 416 Papilio Machaon. The Swallow-tail. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 314 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The swallow-tails, belonging to the family Papilionidæ. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 173 One bright swallow-tail, with blue wings, fringed with crimson. c. A hummingbird of the genus Eupetomena. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > unspecified and miscellaneous types of zumbador1758 sunbeam1769 black warrior1831 hermit-bird1837 Anna's hummingbird1839 jacobin1843 straight-tail1843 vervain hummingbird1847 wedge-bill1848 fiery topaz1854 sungem1856 wood-star1859 calliope1861 rainbow1861 sabre-wing1861 sawbill1861 swallowtail1861 sword-bill1861 thorn-bill1861 visor-bearer1861 warrior1861 wood-nymph1861 puffleg1869 calliope hummingbird1872 flame-bearer1882 shear-tail1885 plature1890 rainbow starfrontlet1966 1861 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ II. Pl. 42 Eupetomena Hirundinacea. Swallow-tail... This species being the most swallow-like member of the entire family of Trochilidæ. 1899 A. H. Evans in Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 435 Eupetomena macrura of Brazil and Guiana, termed the ‘Swallow-tail’ from its forking rectrices. d. A swallow-tailed kite. 3. A name for the white willow ( Salix alba): also swallowtail willow, swallow-tailed willow (see swallow-tailed willow n. at swallow-tailed adj. 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow red willow1547 water willow1583 goat's willow1597 rose willow1597 sweet willow1597 French willow1601 siler1607 palm-withy1609 sallowie1610 swallowtail willow1626 willow bay1650 black willow1670 crack-willow1670 grey willow1697 water sallow1761 almond willowa1763 swallow-tailed willow1764 swamp willow1765 golden osier1772 golden willow1772 purple willow1773 sand-willow1786 goat willow1787 purple osier1797 whipcord1812 Arctic willow1818 sage-willow1846 pussy willow1851 Kilmarnock willow1854 sweet-bay willow1857 pussy1858 palm willow1869 Spaniard1871 ground-willow1875 Spanish willow1875 snap-willow1880 diamond willow1884 sandbar willow1884 pussy palm1886 creeping willow1894 bat-willow1907 cricket bat willow1907 silver willow1914 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §475 The Shining Willow, which they call Swallow-Taile. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 81 The bright swallow-tail willow;..next to the Norfolk kind, it is the largest growing sort. 4. A broad or barbed arrow-head; an arrow with such a head. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head angle-head1488 hook1488 swallowtail1545 flukea1600 fork1608 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 19 The one..hauyng two..barbes, lookyng backewarde to the stele and the fethers, which..we call..a brode arrowe head or a swalowe tayle. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 133 The English..sent off their volleys of swallow-tails before we could call on St Andrew. †5. = dovetail n. 1b, 2 Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint indenting1382 scarf1497 swallowtail1548 dovetail1565 mortise-piece1577 tenon and mortise1610 culver-tail1616 mortise and tenon1631 finger joint1657 breaking joint1663 meeting1663 mitre1665 scarfing1671 heading joint1773 dovetail-joint1776 butting joint1803 bevel-joint1823 lap-joint1823 lapped mitre1825 mitre dovetail1847 bridle joint1860 mortise1875 sypher-joint1875 keyed mitre1876 tongue-and-groove1882 saddle joint1948 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Securicla.., a swalowes tayle [1565 Cooper, swallowe tayle], or a doue tayle in carpenters woorke, whiche is fastnyng of two pieces of timbre..togyther. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Swallowes tayle,..a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together, that they cannot fall asunder. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 594. 6. Fortification. An outwork characterized by two projections with a re-entrant angle between them, suggesting a swallow's tail. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angular outworks priest's cap1446 priest's bonnet1685 swallowtail1688 flèche1710 arrow1747 1688 J. S. Fortification 78 Hornworks..are much more in use than the Tenailes, Swallow Tails, or Priests Bonnets. 1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk i. 11 He..all your Out-works would Assail, With his Eternal Swallows Tail. 1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) Queue d'yronde, or Swallow's-Tail, a Detach'd or Out-work, whose Sides open towards the Head, or Campaign, and draw closer or narrower towards the Gorge. 1908 E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Woman 1 A little walled town with Ghibelline swallow-tails. 7. a. The cleft two-pointed end of a flag or pennon; also, a swallow-tailed flag. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > with cleft end banderole1562 cornute1625 swallowtail1697 swallowtail pennon1891 1697 London Gaz. No. 3317/3 One with a White Flag, Swallow Tail at Main-top-mast. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 5 The Commander in Chief being distinguish'd by a red broad Pendant with a Swallow's Tail at his Main-top-mast Head. 1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 386/2 A yellow jack with a swallow-tail. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xi, in Tales Crusaders II. 220 Methinks, instead of this old swallow's tail, we should muster rarely under a broidered petticoat. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 10 The Flag of the Guidon of Dragoons to be three feet five inches to the end of the slit of the swallow-tail. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 89 The flag..is sometimes square, sometimes a swallow-tail. b. The cleft tail-end of a vane. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > wind-vane or weather-cock > parts of swallowtail1842 vane-spindle1844 vane-pin1889 1842 W. R. Grove Correl. Physical Forces 32 A wind..will instantly arrange these vanes in a definite direction, the arrow-heads or narrow parts pointing one way, the swallow-tails or broad parts another. c. A forked cut used in marking cattle on the ear. ΚΠ 1644 in Arch. Maryland IV. 288 Swallow-taile in the left eare. 1845 Portsmouth (Rhode Island) Rec. 387 The Ear Mark of the Creatures..is a fork or Swallows tail on the Right Ear. 8. a. A swallow-tailed coat. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of coatee1775 swallowtail1835 claw-hammer coat1842 swallowtail coat1848 claw hammer1855 swinger1863 steel pen1873 jimswinger1895 Newmarket overcoat1960 1835 W. P. Frith Let. 2 May in Autobiogr. (1888) III. 38 I don't want a dress-coat; besides, I should look a regular guy in a swallow-tail. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 8 The green coat had been a smart dress garment in the days of swallow-tails. 1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 115 Mr. Golightly rose, divested himself of the loose coat he wore in the study, put on his black swallow-tail, and went down to the drawing-room. 1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 33 The boys..exchanged their tweed coats for the regulation swallow-tails. b. The tail or skirt of such a coat. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > tail or skirt tail1532 coat-taila1600 lappet1726 sparrow-tail1888 swallowtail1894 1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey vi. 57 I banged roon' my hand, an' lo, there was but ae solitary swallowtail to the fore! 1913 Play Pictorial No. 130 The [ladies'] coat..slopes sharply away from the hips, and forms swallow-tails at the back. Compounds attributive. = swallow-tailed adj.: as in swallowtail butterfly, swallowtail coat, swallowtail moth, swallowtail pennon; also formerly applied to a cut of the beard with two points. See also swallowtail willow at sense 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > describing a beard swallowtail1596 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > member of (swallow-tail) swallow-tailed butterfly1743 swallowtail butterfly?1749 zebra swallowtail1855 swallowtail1869 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > urapteryx sambucaria (swallow-tail moth) swallowtail moth?1749 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio machaon swallow-tailed butterfly1743 swallowtail butterfly1816 swallowtail1819 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of coatee1775 swallowtail1835 claw-hammer coat1842 swallowtail coat1848 claw hammer1855 swinger1863 steel pen1873 jimswinger1895 Newmarket overcoat1960 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > with cleft end banderole1562 cornute1625 swallowtail1697 swallowtail pennon1891 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Astrologicall Richard,..most studiously compyled a profound Abridgement vpon beards, & therein..frutelessely determined, betwixt the Swallowes taile cut, & the round beard like a rubbing brush. 1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost (1872) 9 The vse of the terrible cut, and the Swallow-taile slash. 1745 Gleditsch's Teutsch-Eng. Lex. Schwalbenschwantz..a swallow-tail-carving. ?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 47 The Swallow-tail Butterfly is produced twice a Year. ?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 38 The Swallow-tail Moth..is bred in May and June. 1786 Pogonologia 27 Those different fashions of wearing the beard called, sharp-pointed, square, round, fan, swallow's-tail, artichoke-leaf, &c. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 245 The swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio Machaon, L.). 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 253 Our[apteryx] sambucaria (swallow-tail moth). 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iii. 36 Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats. 1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 279 Swallow tail scarf, assemblage à queue d'hironde. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green i. 7 The toga virilis of stick-up collars and swallow-tail coats. 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 45 [The Police, 1836–47] wore swallow-tail blue coats. 1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company xiii The heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon. Draft additions December 2016 A surfboard, snowboard, etc., with a tail which tapers to two points, providing greater control in manoeuvring; the tail of such a board. ΚΠ 1973 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 13 Apr. 2/6 (advt.) Surfboards. Used 7’ roundtail, $50; new 6’2’’ swallowtail, $90. 1986 Surfer Oct. 102 What difference would a swallowtail make in comparison to a squash? 2003 T. Richards & E. Blehm P3 39 They even bought me a new snowboard, another swallowtail, a Sims..with high-back bindings. 2006 Carve Sept. (Surfgirl Mag. Suppl.) 23 My favourite board is a 5'11'' swallowtail with a nice pink spray job. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1545
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