Herringbone

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Herringbone may refer to:

• Herring-Bone (card game), a game of patience
• Herringbone (cloth), a woven pattern of tweed or twill cloth
• Herringbone (formation), a type of military formation
• Herringbone (horse) (1940–1961), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Herringbone cross-stratification, a sedimentary structure in geology that is formed from back-and-forth tidal water flow
• Herringbone gear, a type of gear
• Herringbone pattern, a pattern of floor tiling or paving
• Herringbone seating, a pattern of airliner seating
• A bonding pattern of brickwork, also known as opus spicatum
• Herringbone stitch
• A type of braided hairstyle, which is also known as a fishtail braid
• A distortion pattern from deinterlacing video called mouse teeth
• A method of counting used with the unary numeral system
• A technique of moving one's skis while cross-country skiing
• Herringbone milking shed
• Herringbone, another name for the medical condition scintillating scotoma
• "Herringbone", a song by Department of Eagles from In Ear Park, 2008

See also

• Herring, the fish whose bones are the namesake of the "herringbone" pattern