What is "bobtails"

Usage examples of "bobtails".

And, Belle, if ever you are a parent, which God grant, for you deserve it, you’ll know what it is to have your very life rooted in the virtue of your children, and sustained by that--yes, as mine is, sustained and made pretty comfortable too, even though my king has to succumb to these rebel upstarts, and I have to look on and see every gentleman driven out of the land to give place to these rag-tag and bobtails.

In a trice nothing could be seen but white bobtails flashing up and down as rabbit after rabbit rushed to its burrow.

The wonderful Wizard had asked to join the party, and with him came his friend the Shaggy Man, who was shaggy but not ragged, being dressed in fine silks with satin shags and bobtails.

His coat was of rose-colored velvet, trimmed with shags and bobtails, with buttons of blood-red rubies and golden shags around the edges.

Dolan,” he added, “is a tough case, and around that place of his you’ll find most of the rag ends and bobtails of the country.