devil's elbow

devil's elbow
butterfly (an L-shaped steel plate shackled between the dan leno spindle and legs. Also called arm, banana, boomerang, dan leno arm, dan leno bracket, dan leno spreader, spreader bar)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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