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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Swal'low-tāil, n.

noun

n. 1. (Mech.) The same as Dove-TAIL, q. v.

  1. (Bot.) A species of willow. Bacon.
  2. (Fort.) A work so called from its form;—called also priest-cap. [See Illust. of Redan.]