Dictionary entry

Rat-tail (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rat″–tail′, n. 1. (Far.)pl. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The California chimæra. See Chimæra. (b) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.