bucktail

Etymology

From buck + tail.

bucktail means the tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

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.”
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.