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bucking bar

bucking bar noun: a heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to soften it, and passed through the items to be held together, while a rivet gun hammers on the rivet's factory head; the impulses from the hammer, reflected by the bucking bar, then upset the bucktail to form a field head which is typically pancake-shaped.

bucking bar: a heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to...
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Noun

bucking bar (plural bucking bars)

  1. A heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to soften it, and passed through the items to be held together, while a rivet gun hammers on the rivet's factory head; the impulses from the hammer, reflected by the bucking bar, then upset the bucktail to form a field head which is typically pancake-shaped.

Forms of bucking bar

pluralbucking bars

Questions about bucking bar

What does bucking bar mean?
Bucking bar means a heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to soften it, and passed through the items to be held together, while a rivet gun hammers on the rivet's factory head; the impulses from the hammer, reflected by the bucking bar, then upset the bucktail to form a field head which is typically pancake-shaped.
What part of speech is bucking bar?
Bucking bar is a noun.
What is the plural of bucking bar?
The plural of bucking bar is bucking bars.

Words near bucking bar in the dictionary

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  2. Buckie
  3. buckies
  4. buckin'
  5. bucking
  6. bucking bar
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  8. bucking bronco
  9. bucking broncos
  10. bucking down
  11. bucking for

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