Scut
Scut , noun
[Compare Icelandic skott a fox's tail. r 159.]
The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, esp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. [Obsolete]
He ran like a scut.
How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut.
My doe with the black scut.