Bucktail

Quick meaning: Bucktail is a noun meaning The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.

Meaning

The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.

More Meanings

1. 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 Sentences

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.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fishtail, teaser, tailer, fish tail, dock, bobtail.

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