Definition of rivet

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

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Tota :: Tota (n.) The grivet.
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..
Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection..
Guenon :: Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet..
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..
Waag :: Waag (n.) The grivet.
Prim :: Prim (n.) The privet.
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..
Snaphead :: Snaphead (n.) A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head..
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..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..
Header :: Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading..
Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..
Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron..
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..
Trevet :: Trevet (n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.
Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
Riveted :: Riveted (imp. & p. p.) of Rive.
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