rivet

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  1. noun A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head.
  2. transitive verb To fasten or secure with or as if with a rivet.
  3. transitive verb To hammer the headless end of so as to form a head and fasten something.
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  • The rivet was a push button, and a moment later an answer came from a concealed loud-speaker Inquietude is a supererogation of turgescence," the loud-speaker remarked Johnny," said Long Tom Johnny was William Harper Littlejohn, notable archaeologist and geologist, eminent user of big words, and a man who was taller and thinner than it seemed any man could be There was one favorable thing about Johnny's big words. —  104 - Birds Of Death
  • If you just search "rivet" in ABAQUS Documentation you can find out Tutorials -- > —  iMechanica - Comments
  • A highway sign from Urban Ore was cut to fit, and attached with velcro-rivet attachments. —  dave love's blog
  • If the reed is stuck in the channel because it has pivoted on the rivet, move it back into place using a small screwdriver. —  Word Magazine -
  • They thanked goodness for the rivet in grandfather's neck, and they kept on loving each other until the day they broke. —  Storynory - Stories For Kids
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fastener ·  ingot ·  tongs ·  washer ·  fastening ·  shank ·  zipper ·  reamer ·  latch ·  lockwire ·  screw ·  auger

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rivet:   riveting ·  riveted ·  rivets
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French river, to attach.

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  1. Early modern English also ryvet, revet; from Old French rivet, rivect, a rivet, also the welt of a shoe, from river, clench, rivet, tuck in (bedclothes), French river, clench, rivet; cf. Scots dial. riv, clench (Aberdeen), sew coarsely (Shetland), from Icelandic rifa, tack together, stitch together (Skeat). Cf. rivet, v.
  2. Early modern English ryvet, revet, from late Middle English revet, revett; prob. (like Portuguese rebitare = Italian ribadire, clench, rivet, apparently from the F.) from an unrecorded Old French *riveter (equivalent to river), clench, rivet, from rivet, a rivet: see rivet, n.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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