He saw that I could not be in time, for the goat was bucking to leap at him, and so the good wether stooped his forehead, with the harmless horns curling aside of it; and the goat flung his heels up, and rushed at him, with quick sharp jumps and tricks of movement, and the points of his long horns always foremost, and his little scut cocked like a gun-hammer.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
Sometimes a rabbit would dash out into the road, stop to listen, and dart into the opposite hedge, all hind legs and white scut.
"The Gem Collector"
P. G. Wodehouse
"When I had the door opened who did I see but himself"-designating Brian-"with his impident arm round Elleney's waist-the bould little scut!"
"North, South and Over the Sea"
M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)