Usually means: Fan-shaped tail on bird.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word fantail:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fantail: Merriam-Webster
  2. fantail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fantail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fantail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fantail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fantail, fantail: Wordnik
  7. fantail: Wiktionary
  8. fantail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fantail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fantail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fantail, fantail: Dictionary.com
  12. Fantail (album), Fantail (disambiguation), Fantail (goldfish), Fantail (pigeon), Fantail (ship), Fantail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fantail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fantail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fantail: Rhymezone
  16. Fantail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fantail: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fantail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. fantail: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fantail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fantail: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fantail, fantail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fantail: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Fantail, Fantail: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See fantails as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fantail)

noun:  Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
noun:  Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
noun:  Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
noun:  (nautical) An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
noun:  A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
noun:  A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.

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