Definitions for rivet

rivet riv·et

Spelling: [riv-it]
IPA: /ˈrɪv ɪt/

Rivet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in rivet (eirtv).

Definitions for rivet

noun

  1. a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fasten with a rivet or rivets.
  2. to hammer or spread out the end of (a pin, bolt, etc.) in order to form a head and secure something; clinch.
  3. to fasten or fix firmly.
  4. to hold (the eye, attention, etc.) firmly.

Origin of rivet

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English revette, rivette Old French rivet, derivative of river to attach; (v.) Middle English revetten, derivative of the noun

Examples for rivet

He is reeling off eighteen knots for a gait, or you can use my head for a rivet nut!

This sight seemed to rivet Florent to the ground with surprise.

And ever and ever as it grew, hissed the rivet and screamed the drill.

God created him when He drove in one rivet to feel the whole of the ship.

We must rivet the attention of the public from the start, he says.

He looked at the thin sheet of metal ringed by rivet holes and he knew instantly what it was his wife had chanced upon.

He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.

Not a rivet fell, but that its fall was noted—in quintuplicate.

Looked at in closeup, it reveals a row of popped rivets, with one rivet still partially stuck in place.

We mean for the illustrations—Mr. rivet said you might put one in.

Word Value for rivet
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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