He looked at the thin sheet of metal ringed by rivet holes and he knew instantly what it was his wife had chanced upon.
Looked at in closeup, it reveals a row of popped rivets, with one rivet still partially stuck in place.
He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.
This sight seemed to rivet Florent to the ground with surprise.
We must rivet the attention of the public from the start, he says.
God created him when He drove in one rivet to feel the whole of the ship.
Not a rivet fell, but that its fall was noted—in quintuplicate.
He is reeling off eighteen knots for a gait, or you can use my head for a rivet nut!
And ever and ever as it grew, hissed the rivet and screamed the drill.
We mean for the illustrations—Mr. rivet said you might put one in.
c.1400, from Old French rivet "nail, rivet," from Old French river "to clench, fix, fasten," possibly from Middle Dutch wriven "turn, grind," related to rive (v.). The English word may be directly from Middle Dutch.
