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blind rivets

blind rivets is the plural of blind rivet.

Meaning of blind rivet

Noun

blind rivet (plural blind rivets)

  1. A rivet which can be fixed with access only to the factory head end; most commonly a pop rivet fitted by passing the bucktail through the sheets to be secured, then attaching a rivet gun to a frangible mandrel through the centre of the rivet, which upsets the bucktail to form the field head and breaks off when the correct pressure has been achieved.

Questions about blind rivets

What is blind rivets the plural of?
Blind rivets is the plural of blind rivet.

Words near blind rivets in the dictionary

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  2. blind reader
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  4. Blind River
  5. blind rivet
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  8. blind shark
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  10. blind shell
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