MARE'S TAIL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Mare's tail

... that made her petticoats whisk like a mare's tail, and off to the kitchen, where she related the dialogue with an appropriate reflection, the company containing several of either sex. "Dilly-Dally and Shilly-Shally, they belongs to us as women be. I hate and despise a man as can't make up his mind ...

— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade

... tumbles through the cleft between Ben Muich Dhui and Ben Avon. We should not omit, by the way, for the benefit of those who are better acquainted with Scottish than with Continental scenery, to notice the resemblance of this torrent to the Gray Mare's Tail in Moffat-dale. In the character both of the stream itself and in the immediate scenery there are many points of resemblance, every thing connected with the Avon being of course on ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various