fantail

IPA: fˈænteɪɫ

Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
(nautical) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.

Examples of "fantail" in Sentences

I have seen more people fishing off the "fantail" of their jetskis.
At night, the same movie was shown on an open-air screen on the ship's fantail for the troops.
It flatters me because it cuts in at the waist and has a little bit of extra detail with the 'fantail' at the front.
One day, one particular Kamikaze pilot was headed right toward Joe, his gun and his mates: headed right for the fantail.
SEAL snipers, who were positioned on a deck at the stern of the Bainbridge, an area known as the fantail, had the three pirates in their sights.
Now that precisely coincides with the 'fantail' deer which some old-time hunters of my acquaintance say they have killed in the Black Hills country, though scientists say there never was any fantail deer.
Standing on the fantail of a ship beneath a canopy of starlight alone on a moonless night, the first time he'd ever seen the Southern Cross and it made him weep for the beauty, the implication was, at once symbolic and wondrous.