fantail
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- noun
- /ˈfænˌteɪl/
- Specialized
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- Climbing to the hood above the bait tank, I could look directly down on the fantail.
- the fantail of the ship
Examples
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During the summer sunset, the crew enjoyed their meals on the fantail of the ship, watching the waves crash gently against the hull.
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Caught a gust over the fantail.
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Stay clear of the fantail--
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Observers lay out to the fantail.
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We said nothing for some time, and I noticed Ignacio was looking at the fantail of the ship.
Fiction book (1995) -
Bosch climbed over the transom to the fantail.
Fiction book (2001) -
A cloud of oily smoke swept across the battleship's fantail.
Fiction book (2002) -
We are now at the fantail, the very stern, where the Arizona narrows markedly and again becomes identifiable as a ship, even in low visibility.
Academic text (1991) -
He stepped onto the fantail and, while crouched behind the stern, wrapped the Zodiac's line around one of the rear cleats.
Fiction book (2001) -
The captain stood at the rear of the vessel, surveying the horizon from the fantail where the wind tousled his hair.
Synonyms
The rear part of a ship's deck behind the middle
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fantail comes from the two simple words fan and tail, meaning a tail that 'spreads out' like a fan. So sailors call the overhanging, fan-shaped part at the back of a ship the fantail.