a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2.
Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
3.
Aeronautics.
a.
an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
b.
Also called canard wing.one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
c.
an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
Origin: 1840–50; < F: lit., duck; OF quanart drake, orig. cackler, equiv. to can(er) to cackle (of expressive orig.) + -art-art, as in mallart drake; see mallard
before 1850, from Fr. "a hoax," lit. "a duck," 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." From O.Fr. quanart, probably echoic of a duck's quack.
[kuh-nahrd; Fr. ka-nar] 
