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单词 cow-tail
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cow-tailn.

1. The bushy tail of the Tibetan Yak used as a whisk; = chauri n. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > device for driving off flies
werela1390
flapc1440
fly-flapc1440
flapper1570
flip-flap1600
cow-tail1672
fly-flapper1749
chauri1777
fly-brush1838
fly-whisk1838
fly-duster1860
scare-fly1862
fly-whipper1872
fly-fan1891
fly-flick1914
fly-swatter1917
swatter1917
fly-swish1922
swatting1925
fly-swat1937
1672 H. Oldenburg tr. F. Bernier Contin. Mem. conc. Empire Great Mogol III. 41 These Elephants have then also..certain Cow-tails..hanging at their ears like great mustachoes.
1774 W. Hastings in Markham Tibet (1876) 8 Cattle which bear what are called cowtails.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. xv. 351 A confidential servant..waved the great chowry, or cow-tail, to keep off the flies.
1840 H. H. Wilson Vishnu Purana v. v. 506 Yaśodá..waved over him a cow-tail brush.
2. The coarsest grade of wool, sheared from the sheep's hind legs.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep > from specific part of sheep
hip locks1681
neck wool1726
breeching1799
bottom wool1848
belly-wool1851
say-cast1877
cow-tail1884
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 16 The coarsest part of the [sheep's] wool is known as breach, or britch, and even when very strong, as cow-tail.
1945 S. J. Baker 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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