rat-tail
Noun

rat-tail

  1. (slang) A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
  2. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
  3. A fish, the California chimera, Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei.
  4. Any fish of the genus Macrourus; a grenadier.



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