Bucktail
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
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.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From buck + tail.
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