Scut \Scut\, n. [Cf. Icel. skott a fox's tail. [root] 159.]

[Obs.]

The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. ``He ran like a scut.'' --Skelton.

How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, wheras that part in others attains no higher than a scut. --Sir T. Browne.

My doe with the black scut. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)