cowtail

plural cowtails · alternative cow-tail · alternative cow tail · alternative cow's tail

1. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountableA coarse wool of low quality, usually shorn from the hind legs of sheep.
3. countableuncountableA stingray of species Pastinachus sephen.