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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RINGTAIL

RINGTAIL Ring "tail `, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.

2. (Naut. )

Defn: A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail. Ringtail boom (Naut. ), a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.

New American Oxford Dictionary

ringtail

ring tail |ˈriNGˌtāl ˈrɪŋteɪl | ▶noun 1 any of a number of mammals or birds having a tail marked with a ring or rings, in particular: • a ring-tailed cat or lemur. • a female hen harrier or related harrier. • a golden eagle up to its third year. 2 (also ringtail or ring-tailed possum ) a nocturnal tree-dwelling Australian possum that habitually curls its prehensile tail into a ring or spiral. [Genus Pseudocheirus and other genera, family Petauridae: several species, in particular the common ringtail (P. peregrinus ), of southern Australia and Tasmania. ]

Oxford Dictionary

ringtail

ring |tail |ˈrɪŋteɪl | ▶noun 1 a ring-tailed cat or lemur. • a female hen harrier or related harrier. • a golden eagle up to its third year. 2 (also ringtail or ring-tailed possum ) a nocturnal tree-dwelling Australian possum that habitually curls its prehensile tail into a ring or spiral. ●Genus Pseudocheirus and other genera, family Petauridae: several species.