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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pintail is a noun meaning "long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers". It carries one recorded sense.
long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pintail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.