Definition of rivet

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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..

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Trivet :: Trivet (n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat.
Header :: Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading..
Riveting :: Riveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rive.
Trevet :: Trevet (n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.
Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The whole set of rivets, collectively..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..
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..
Trivet :: Trivet (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod..
Brand Iron :: Brand iron () A trivet to set a pot on.
Guenon :: Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet..
Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
Riveted :: Riveted (imp. & p. p.) of Rive.
Compasses :: Compasses (n.) An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move..
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