英语词汇“cow-tail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	cow-tail
释义	cow-tail †1. The bushy tail of the Tibetan Yak used as a whisk; = chowry. Obs. 1671tr. Bernier's Voy. 84 (Y.) These Elephants have then also..certain Cow-tails..hanging at their Ears like great Mustachoes.1774W. Hastings in Markham Tibet (1876) 8 Cattle which bear what are called cowtails.1827[see chowry].1840H. H. Wilson Vishńu-paráńa (1868) IV. 276 Yaśodá..waved over him a cow-tail brush. 2. The coarsest grade of wool, sheared from the sheep's hind legs. 1884W. S. B. Maclaren Spinning 16 The coarsest part of the [sheep's] wool is known as breach, or britch, and even when very strong, as cow-tail.1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 66 Among wool-trade expressions apparently original to Australia are cowtail and say-cast, the coarsest hair at the tail end of a fleece.
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