| 单词 | fish-tail-jet | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfish-tail-jet   The tail of a fish. Chiefly attributive of things resembling a fish's tail in shape or action, e.g. a spreading flame from a kind of gas-burner, hence called  fish-tail burner,  fish-tail-jet (also shortened fish-tail). ΚΠ 1840    Mechanics' Mag. 32 343/2  				The best small light is..the fish-tail jet. 1852    J. Bourne Treat. Screw Propeller 56  				Fowles's Fish-tail Propeller. 1864    G. A. Sala in  Daily Tel. Oct.  				I turned on a fishtail burner. c1865    H. Letheby in  J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 128/2  				In the case of cannel coal, the holes are small; and for common London gas they are rather large. The former are known by the name of Lancashire or Scotch fish-tails. 1872    O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table 		(1885)	 x. 247  				We have no more reverence for the sun than we have for a fish-tail gas burner. 1892    Daily News 29 Mar. 6/6  				I spliced it to the bedstead, in what they call a fishtail knot. 1931    Vanity Fair Nov. 78/2  				Fishtailing, which is swishing the machine from side to side to reduce the forward speed, explains a fishtail landing as zig-zagging after touching ground, in order to slow down when coming into a small field. 1939    M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 57/3  				Fish-tail, shaped like tail of fish; having cut-out V in end.—f[ish-tail] drapery, train, as on a formal gown, shaped like fish-tail. 1963    Gloss. Mining Terms 		(B.S.I.)	  iii. 8  				Drag bit (fishtail bit, pilot bit), a rotary bit which has two or more cutting blades or wings with hard~faced cutting edges. (Various types are the two-wing, three-wing, fishtail and pilot bits.) < as lemmas  | 
	
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