Obs. The bushy tail of the Tibetan Yak used as a whisk; = CHOWRY.
1671. trans. Bernier’s Voy., 84 (Y.). 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. [see CHOWRY].
1840. H. H. Wilson, trans. Vishṅu-puráṅa (1868), IV. 276. Yaśodá … waved over him a cow-tail brush.
