Rat-tail /(răt"tāl`)/

Rat·-tail

Rat-tail

a.
  1. Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.

Rat-tail

n.
  1. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse. (Far.)
  2. The California chimaera. See Chimaera. (Zool.)