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- Rat-tail - a. - 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. - An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
- Rat-tail - n. - The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
- Rat-tail - n. - Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.
- Rat-tailed - a. - Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
- Rat-tail - a. - Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
- Grenadier - n. - Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.