Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A power-machine for forcing hot rivets into position in metal-work and heading them.
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Examples
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Stow's flexible shaft; Lechner's coal-mining engine; Allen & Roeder's riveting-machine; and Delamater's punches and shears, -- are a few more of the representative machines.
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The shackles were riveted with soft wrought-iron rivets, evidently made with some sort of a power riveting-machine.
Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934
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Now let us glance for a moment at the poems in prose and verse of Mr. James Oppenheim, a young man for whom a metropolis is almost completely epitomized by the riveting-machine, the sweat-shop, and the slum.
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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