Word Meaning

Meaning of rat tail

- Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
- An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
- The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
- Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.