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Definition of rivet

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Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..

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Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The whole set of rivets, collectively..

Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing..

Tota :: Tota (n.) The grivet.

Burr :: Burr (n.) 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..

Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.

Ligustrin :: Ligustrin (n.) A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also ligustron..

Guenon :: Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet..

Riveter :: Riveter (n.) One who rivets.

Trevet :: Trevet (n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron..

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head..

Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other..

Header :: Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading..

Prim :: Prim (n.) The privet.

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam..

Riveting :: Riveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rive.

Prie :: Prie (n.) The plant privet.

Unrivet :: Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates..