Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the tail boatshaped. See boat-shaped.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, I e-mailed the pictures to John, who writes A DC Birding Blog, and he identified it as a female boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major).
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So, I e-mailed the pictures to John, who writes A DC Birding Blog, and he identified it as a female boat-tailed grackle Quiscalus major.
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We'll use your out-of-date platform for the Mercedes SLK, which you're abandoning anyway, topped by our version of a '30's boat-tailed roadster body.
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Mourning doves, ground doves, and common nighthawks nest and feed within the dune areas, while boat-tailed grackles and red-winged blackbirds feed on seed oat seeds in the fall.
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It took the 180-grain boat-tailed Sierra bullet 1.3 seconds to reach the tower.
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Land ordered match-grade boat-tailed ammo in lots.
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As the waters ran away, leaving their spume behind to melt into the sand, a few of the plovers, sanderlings and funny boat-tailed grackles gave chase.
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The great-tailed is more uniformly colored than the boat-tailed and slightly bigger.
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Glossy, boat-tailed grackles had scared them off, she said, but I was to come in, sit on the porch, not move a muscle, and they might come back.
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On this car, when the wooden propeller is spinning at full speed and efficiently, this little 1,000-pound boat-tailed skiff can hit freeway speeds exceeding 75 mph.
reesetee commented on the word boat-tailed
They do look like separate species to the untrained eye. Lots of other birds have fooled me that way too--including our friend the Red-Winged Blackbird.
September 17, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word boat-tailed
When I first moved to Florida I seriously thought the black/purple/green irridescent male boat-tailed grackle and the smaller sooty ochre-colored females were two separate corvid species. Fooled me for a few weeks!
September 17, 2009