Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
redstart . - noun The red-tailed buzzard, Buteo borealis, one of the commonest and largest hawks of North America, when adult having the upper side of the tail bright chestnut-red.
- Having a red tail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The red-tailed hawk.
- noun The European redstart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The red-tailed hawk.
- noun The
European redstart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
- noun European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
Etymologies
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Examples
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From what I could gather from the conversation, a redtail is a big snake.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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Except for once. 3 crows after a redtail, one was nipping at its tail.
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Or was it making an impossible try to snag the low-flying redtail?
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Or was it making an impossible try to snag the low-flying redtail?
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The air was so calm that flying was probably laborious, and when a light breeze slipped in—not from the west but out of the east—a big redtail climbed up to play along the cliff face, then dropped down to skim low.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The redtail hit the brakes, did a barrel roll, sunk one set of talons into the crow, and the crow dropped like a rock when it let go.
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Except for once. 3 crows after a redtail, one was nipping at its tail.
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But just as I was putting together a business plan, a redtail hawk, attracted by my orange Fudd hat, swooped down from the ridge above and tried to get in the stand with me.
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The redtail hit the brakes, did a barrel roll, sunk one set of talons into the crow, and the crow dropped like a rock when it let go.
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Spin your wheels, the sky turns downside up, the redtail hawk whistles derisively, and nothing moves forward.
hunting for lizards James Claffey 2012
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