Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, a machine for driving rivets.
- noun One who or that which rivets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who rivets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person whose job is to
rivet . - noun A
machine ortool used to applyrivets .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
- noun a machine for driving rivets
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Examples
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A golden speck, no larger than a pin-point, appeared on the rim, and by his manipulation of the riveter it returned to the bottom of tile pan.
All Gold Canon 2010
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This fanatical hatred for paying taxes -- taxes which build our bridges my grandfather was a riveter on the Brooklyn Bridge and paved our roads, and built the planes and ships that helped us win WWII -- all this came from taxes paid by complaining citizens who deep down understood their obligations to the future.
Sherman Yellen: GOP Cuts Are Deadly Wounds for America's Children Sherman Yellen 2011
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Rosie was based on Rose Monroe and she was a riveter at Willow Run Aircraft in Michigan.
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 32 weeks 5 days ago rosie the riveter
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If she's a riveter, why's she doing up big nuts with a spanner?
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Rosie was based on Rose Monroe and she was a riveter at Willow Run Aircraft in Michigan.
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She told us that when she posed for that famous poster, she was just 17 years old, and was a model, working for a modeling agency, and had never worked as a riveter.
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If she's a riveter, why's she doing up big nuts with a spanner?
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She told us that when she posed for that famous poster, she was just 17 years old, and was a model, working for a modeling agency, and had never worked as a riveter.
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 32 weeks 5 days ago rosie the riveter
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