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bucktail

bucktail noun: the tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.

bucktail: the tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure
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Noun

bucktail (plural bucktails)

  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.2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times
  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.

Forms of bucktail

pluralbucktails

Origin of bucktail

From buck + tail.

Questions about bucktail

What does bucktail mean?
Bucktail means the tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
What part of speech is bucktail?
Bucktail is a noun.
What is the plural of bucktail?
The plural of bucktail is bucktails.

Words near bucktail in the dictionary

  1. buckstalls
  2. buckstay
  3. buckstays
  4. Buckstone
  5. Buckstones
  6. bucktail
  7. bucktails
  8. bucktee
  9. bucktees
  10. buckteeth
  11. buckthorn

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