"roostertail" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From rooster + tail, from analogy with the shape of a rooster's feathered tail.",
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      "form": "roostertails",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1988, Libby Riddles, Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story, page 21",
          "text": "A roostertail of snow kicked up behind me.",
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        "A violent fountain or spray, especially one caused by a moving vehicle or boat."
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    {
      "form": "roostertailing",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "roostertailed",
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          "ref": "2005, Pete Watson, “The Prisoner”, in The Heart of the Lion",
          "text": "The red dust of Tanguieta rolling and roostertailing behind us.",
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        "To pour like a fountain; to spurt violently."
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          "ref": "2005, Dave Ames, A Good Life Wasted, page 197",
          "text": "The shiny new aluminum tribal Jet-Boat roostertailed up the river, straight for us, kicking up a wake that rocked our boat hard enough to knock the cards off the cooler.",
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        "To move rapidly through water, leaving a roostertail wake."
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          "text": "The red dust of Tanguieta rolling and roostertailing behind us.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To pour like a fountain; to spurt violently."
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        }
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        "To move rapidly through water, leaving a roostertail wake."
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          "wake",
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