rivet line

1. 1.

   a line of rivets at a seam

   “the fuselage cracked along the rivet line”

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Questions about rivet line

What does rivet line mean?

rivet line means "a line of rivets at a seam".

Is rivet line a common word?

rivet line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.