riveted

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A form of rivet — A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.

Less commonScrabble 11

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verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of rivet

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