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Rivet :: 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..

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

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..

Tota :: Tota (n.) The grivet.

Start :: Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure..

Waag :: Waag (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..

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

Lawsonia :: Lawsonia (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette..

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..

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

Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..

Brand Iron :: Brand iron () A trivet to set a pot on.

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..

Grivet :: Grivet (n.) A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota..

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..

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection..

Size :: Size (n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls..

Prim :: Prim (n.) The privet.

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

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