Usually means: Long-tailed duck with elegance.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pintail:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pintail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See pintails as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pintail)

noun:  A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
noun:  A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.
noun:  A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
noun:  Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Acisoma, endemic to Africa and Asia.
noun:  (engineering) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
noun:  (surfing) A surfboard with a pointed back end.

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