DCHP-2
squaretail DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.).
- 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.