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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, tail.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- (thermistor): 1966, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Glossary of Oceanographic Terms (page 51)
Further reading
[edit]- 1847, William Sloane EVANS, A Grammar of British Heraldry, consisting of “Blason” and “Marshalling,” with an introduction on the rise, origin, and progress of symbols and ensigns, etc. [With plates.], page 34:
- 9. BLOOD COLOUR. "DRAGON'S TAIL." "SARDONYX." "MURREY or SANGUINE." This colour (as the preceding), is very seldom met with in English coat Armour; but nevertheless is of great estimation; and was used (according to Gwillim), in certain robes of Knights of the Bath. It is blazoned by 1. Dragon's Tail 2. Sardonyx 3. Murrey or Sanguine. Leigh makes no mention of any particular virtue appertaining to it.