bucktail
The English word “bucktail” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
- 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.
Etymology
From buck + tail.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “bucktail” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.