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cowtail en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English *cou-tayl, from Old English cūtæġl (“cowtail”), equivalent to cow + tail.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The tail of a cow.
   • These burrs stuck to the tails of the cows as they walked by, and were brought to the cowpen, the cowtails greatly enlarged by the huge amount of cockleburs stuck on them. 2002, Lura Spears Zerick, The Golden Olden Days, page 69:
2. (countable, uncountable) A coarse wool of low quality, usually shorn from the hind legs of sheep.
3. (countable, uncountable) A stingray of species Pastinachus sephen.

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