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duckhead

Today it means: Part of a tyre-changing device, designed to fit around the rim of the wheel so as to mount and demount the tyre. Full definition →

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duck + head, from the resemblance to a duck's bill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.