Definitions for rivets

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rivets riv·et

Spelling: [riv-it]

IPA: /ˈrɪv ɪt/

Rivets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in rivets (eirstv).

Definitions for rivets

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 rivets

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 rivets

Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation.

All these pieces are tied together with thongs, rivets not being used at all.

Nails and rivets were with difficulty got to hold in the sides of the old Indianian.

The outlines are in part dependent in character, controlled by rivets.

You remember my spear with the thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket?

It was like as if hundreds of rivets were being hammered into the hide of the 'tank.'

One of my wings has got some of the rivets out of it just above the joint.

The workmen made a great noise with their hammers, heading the rivets.

As with that earlier book, he rivets the reader to a plot of jarring contradictions.

For in this play of Magda the Duse rivets interests, delights not by what she does, but by what she is.