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n. A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head.

v. To fasten or secure with or as if with a rivet.

v. To hammer the headless end of so as to form a head and fasten something.

v. To fasten or secure firmly; fix.

v. To engross or hold (the attention, for example).

n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

n.  any fixed point or certain basis

n. a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet)

v. to attach or fasten parts by using rivets

v. to install rivets

v. to command the attention of.

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.

v. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets.

v. 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. Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable.

n. A short metallic malleable pin or bolt passing through a hole and so fastened as to keep pieces of metal (or sometimes other substances) together; especially, a short bolt or pin of wrought-iron, copper, or of any other malleable material, formed with a head and inserted into a hole at the junction of two or more pieces of metal, the point after insertion being hammered broad so as to keep the pieces closely bound together.

To fasten with a rivet or with rivets: as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

To clench: as, to rivet a pin or bolt.

Figuratively, to fasten firmly; make firm, strong, or immovable: as, to rivet friendship.

n. Bearded wheat.

n. The roe of a fish.

n. heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together

n. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

v. direct one's attention on something

v. hold (someone's attention)

v. fasten with a rivet or rivets

"The lower right quadrant, if it has anything in it, will be a “C”, to indicate that the butt side of the rivet is to be countersunk, (such as a double flush plug) for the NACA method (82 degrees, rather than the 100 degrees for under a manufactered head)."

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pin    decoration    ornament    ornamentation    absorb    engage    engross    occupy    fix    secure   

pan-head rivet    riveting    riveted    riveters    rivets    riveter   

riveted    riveting    rivet counter    pop rivet   

civet    pivot   

fastener    ingot    tongs    washer    fastening    shank    zipper    reamer    latch    lockwire