horse tail

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That thing that looks like a horse tail hanging from a metal hook in the back kitchen?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2016

“I. . . well, finally Chiron came out in his pajamas and his horse tail in curlers and—” “He wears curlers in his tail?”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

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."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

Their heads are close shaven, except one lock on the crown, as long as a horse tail, which they bind up into a knot with leather thongs.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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?

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John