< /kəˈnɑrdz; French kaˈnar/.
- a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
- Aeronautics.
- an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
- Also called canard wing.one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
- an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
noun
- a false report; rumour or hoax
- an aircraft in which the tailplane is mounted in front of the wing
before 1850, from French canard “a hoax,” literally “a duck” (from Old French quanart, probably echoic of a duck’s quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié “to half-sell a duck,” thus, from some long-forgotten joke, “to cheat.”