rivet
A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
Other meanings
Any fixed point or certain basis.
A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
A kind of
- pin
Related words
- rivethead
- rivetless
- rivetlike
- scrivet
- rivet counter
- rivet wheat
- on the rivet
- rivet hearth
- rivet knob
- pop rivet
- rivet gun
Word history
From Latin "ripa" (riverbank).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “rivet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.