Definition of "spiketail" []

• The pintail duck. (noun)

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• ""Where they wear suits like Sam's spiketail," said Mormon."
• "Won't want folks laffin 'at you like they laffed at Sam, time he won fo' hundred dollars shootin 'craps an' went to Galveston where a smart Alec of a clerk sells him a spiketail coat, wash vest an 'black pants with braid on the seams."
• "Wright stands there in his spiketail coat, and he runs his hand down that old stirrup leather a time or two; and for a little while he can't say nothing at all -- me neither."