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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.
n.
The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
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.
n.
The whole set of rivets, collectively.
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.
v. t.
To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.
v. i.
To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
n.
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rivet
n.
The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Rivet
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.
v. t.
Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
n.
One who rivets.
v. t.
To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
n.
One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
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.
n.
A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.
n.
The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.
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