coat-tail

Depositing her tenderly upon a pile of hot bricks, he mopped his steaming front with his warm coat-tail.

He sits wi' little ease wha sits on his neighbour's coat tail.

I carried five messages to one fellow with a coat-tail straight to his heels, last week.

Then he again uttered an exclamation, for a bounding cannon ball—ricochetting from the deck—took off the end of his coat-tail.

I had sold two dozen at fifty cents apiece when I felt somebody pull my coat tail.