dragon's tail
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See also: Dragon's Tail
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
dragon's tail (countable and uncountable, plural dragon's tails)
- (countable) A thermistor that is towed behind a ship to measure the ocean's temperature.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (heraldry) The sanguine (or murrey) tincture, when blazoning is done by the heavenly bodies.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, tail.
References[edit]
- (thermistor): 1966, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Glossary of Oceanographic Terms (page 51)