Ring"tail` (?), n.
1. Zool.
A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
2. Naut.
A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Ringtail boom Naut., a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.
© Webster 1913.