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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Hair from the tail of a deer, often dyed and used especially in artificial fishing flies.
  • noun An artificial fly made with bucktail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name originally given to the members of the Tammany Society in New York city, but about 1817–26 extended in its application to members of that faction of the Democratic-Republican party in the State which opposed De Witt Clinton.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

Etymologies

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buck +‎ tail

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