squaretail

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis.

Quotations

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

2n.

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

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.).