canard

A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.

• It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.
• [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.

A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.

A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.broadly

Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.broadly