mare's tails

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• Mare's-nest

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• Mare's-tail

  ·noun An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls. II. Mar...

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• mare's nest

  He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent...

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• cat-tails

  Hares-tail rush (erophorum vaginatum). So called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. This name is ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• long-tails

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• swallow-tails

  The points of a burgee. Also, the tails of a coat. ...

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• Cat o' nine tails

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• cat of nine tails

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  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat-with-two-tails

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• cat o' nine tails

  An instrument of punishment used on board ships in the navy; it is commonly of nine pieces of line o...

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