Fishtail

Look up fishtail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Fishtail may refer to:

Biology

• The rearmost fish fin or caudal fin
• Fishtail palm (genus Caryota)

Transportation

• Fishtailing, a problem in car handling
• Fishtail Air, a helicopter airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Places

• Fishtail, Montana, a town
• Fishtail Point, southernmost point of Shults Peninsula in Antarctica
• Fishtail Lake, lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
• Fishtail Rock, a geologic feature on Hoi Sham Island, a former island near Hong Kong
• Fishtail Butte; see List of mountains in Stillwater County, Montana
• Fishtail Lagoon, a body of water in the Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes
• Machapuchare, "Fish's Tail", a mountain in Nepal

Tools

• Fishtail (tool), a wood carving tool and for gardening
• Fishtail gauge
• Fishtail projectile point a type of Palaeolithic stone projectile point

Clothing

• Fishtail parka, a type of anorak, such as the US Army's M-65 parka
• Fishtail train, a flared train (the long back portion of various clothing that trails behind the wearer)
• Fishtail wrap, a style of folding or draping a sari

Culture

• Fishtail (Quickstep), a Quickstep dance figure
• A form of the scrollwork, graphic design

See also

• Fish tale (disambiguation)
• Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, mobile by American artist Alexander Calder
• Fish Tail Blues, a blues song attributed to American musician Jelly Roll Morton