The wing of a duck, or a fly fishing lure designed to imitate a duck's wing with feathers and coloring.
Compound of 'duck' and 'wing' (from Old Norse 'vængr'). In fly fishing, the term became specialized to describe a particular artificial fly pattern used since the 19th century.
Duckwing is one of the classic fly fishing patterns, and anglers have names like 'Grouse and Duckwing' for specific lure designs—showing how sports develop their own specialized vocabularies for tools that imitate nature.
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