QUEUE D'ARONDE

, or Swallow's Tail, in Fortification, is a detached or outwork, whose sides spread or open towards the campaign, or draw narrower and closer towards the gorge. Of this kind are either single or double tenailles, and some horn-works, whose sides are not parallel, but are narrow at the gorge, and open at the head, like the figure of a swallow's tail.

On the contrary, when the sides are less than the gorge, the work is called contre Queue d'aronde.

Queue d'aronde, in Carpentry, a method of jointing, called also dove-tailing.