The owner has jury rigged an auxiliary rudder-like steering mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
I wonder how long we will have to wait for emergence of the auxiliary rudder-like steering mechanism mounted brake lever ARLSMMBL. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
An otter's feet are strongly webbed and the tail is long and rudder-like. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
The rudder-like oar, several feet long, is held by the captain, who sculls and steers at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of the Long Night] Reference
The flying dinosaur, about the size of a Canada goose, had a large, thin rudder-like sail on its head. From Wordnik.com. [Red Ice Creations] Reference
By the guidance of his rudder-like tail the hawk soon turned, and flew round to that side of the tree on which the squirrel had now settled. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
Students heard about the peregrine falcon's flight speeds that top 200mph because of its unique third eye lid, and owls 'unique rudder-like tails - which contributed to Nasa designs. From Wordnik.com. [icCheshireOnline] Reference
Red Sandstone; and certainly a stranger assemblage of forms has rarely been grouped together -- creatures whose very type is lost, fantastic and uncouth, which puzzle the naturalist to assign them even to their class; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder; fish, plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armour of bone, and furnished with but one solitary rudder-like fin; other fish with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales; creatures bristling over with thorns; others glistening in an enamelled coat, as if beautifully japanned; the tail in every instance among the less equivocal shapes formed not equally, as in existing fish, on each side the central vertebral column, but chiefly on the lower side -- the column sending out its diminished vertebræ to the extreme termination of the fin. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
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