bucktail

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
8

Definition of bucktail

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
    “Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.”
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noun

  1. The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
    “Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.”
  2. The end of a rivet opposite the factory head, which in a solid rivet may be bucked by holding a heavy bucking bar or similar-purposed tool against it, while the factory head is hammered until the bucktail is upset into an appropriate shape, most commonly pancake-shaped; the mandrel of a blind rivet generally upsets the bucktail into a doughnut-shape when it is pulled.

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Etymology

From buck + tail.

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