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bucking bars

bucking bars is the plural of bucking bar.

Meaning of bucking bar

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.

Questions about bucking bars

What is bucking bars the plural of?
Bucking bars is the plural of bucking bar.

Words near bucking bars in the dictionary

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

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