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squaretail

• 1 n. the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis.

  • 1936  We had no fire scares and caught as many two-pound "squaretails" as we could eat, though we had to work hard for them.
  • 1952  Someone told me that a nine-pound squaretail was once caught up there. . . .
  • 1963  And those Mile High trout at this particular time proved the deepest-feeding, surface-hatingest squaretails I've run into

• 2 n. a grouse, Tympanuchus cupido americanus, common on the southern prairies.

  See also: prairie chicken (def. 1)  sharp-tailed grouse  

  • 1958  I mean square-tails, or pinnated grouse.
  • 1959  Common Prairie Chicken [is also called] square-tail (The tail is evenly rounded, not pointed . . . Man., Sask.); square-tailed grouse (Man.).