Fork-tailed

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• Fork

  ·vi To shoot into blades, as corn. II. Fork ·noun The <<Gibbet>>. III. Fork ·vi To divide into two...

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• fork

  A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket.--'The newest and most dexterous way, which is...

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• Tailed

  ·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; — chiefly used in composition; as, bob...

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• to fork over

  To hand over; to pay over, as money. A common expression in colloquial language. He groaned in spir...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pick-fork

  a pitch-fork. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• fork-beams

  Short or half beams to support the deck where there is no framing, as in the intervention of hatchwa...

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• Crop-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail cropped. ...

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• Dag-tailed

  ·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. ...

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• Daggle-tailed

  ·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. ...

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• Draggle-tailed

  ·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. ...

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• Fan-tailed

  ·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. ...

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• Pin-tailed

  ·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...

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• Racket-tailed

  ·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. ...

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• Rat-tailed

  ·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...

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• Red-tailed

  ·adj Having a red tail. ...

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• Ring-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...

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• Ruby-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. ...

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• Scissors-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....

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• Spine-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. ...

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• Stiff-tailed

  ·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. ...

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• Stump-tailed

  ·adj Having a short, thick tail. ...

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• Swallow-tailed

  ·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed. II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...

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• Wedge-tailed

  ·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...

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• Wire-tailed

  ·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...

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• culver-tailed

  Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....

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• nail-tailed wallaby

  n. See onychogale. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• stump-tailed lizard

  n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris