What is a thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down called?
burr — A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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