fantail

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of a breed of domestic pigeons having a rounded, fan-shaped tail.
2. n. Any of several birds of the genus Rhipidura of eastern Asia and Australia, having a long, fan-shaped tail.
3. n. Any of a breed of goldfish having a wide, fanlike double tail fin.
4. n. A fanlike tail or end.
5. n. Nautical The stern overhang of a ship.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fan-tailed flycatcher; any bird of the genus Rhipidura, as the Australian fantail, R. motacilloides.
2. n. An artificial fan-tailed variety of the domestic pigeon.
3. n. A form of gas-burner.
4. n. A splayed tenon or mortise.
5. n. In shipbuilding, 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.
6. Same as fan-tailed, 1: specifically applied to small old-world warblers of the genus Cisticola, as C. cursitans of Europe.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia and Australia
2. n. Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail
3. n. Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail
4. n. nautical An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
2. n. Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
3. n. the fantail goldfish.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship