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horse tail

noun

First recorded in 1870–75

Therefore, you must already know the world's most famous poem concerning a horse-tail—Tam O'Shanter.

On the top of the detaching roller is a large steel fluted roller carried at each end by a small arm called a "horse tail."

There is a little "horse-tail" growing in our meadows, and there are ferns and club mosses almost everywhere.

Yes; but do you not see, nearly joining with them, what is not a horse tail at all; but a flame of fire, kindled at Apollo's knee?

My breakfast of tea has been cooked by a Tartar woman, with water of the Amur, who wiped her earthen kettle with a horse-tail.

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