caˇnard
(k
-närd
)
KEY
NOUN:
- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
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- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
ETYMOLOGY:
French,
duck, canard, probably from the phrase
vendre un canard ā moitié,
to half-sell a duck, to swindle, from Old French
quanart,
duck, from
caner,
to cackle,
of imitative origin
