rivet
noun
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.
rivetless
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a word derived from
rivet.
Example Sentences
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Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser A. Minutes ticked on and on.
From Time Magazine Archive
This important principle is already successfully used in the making of rivetless pipes, and its application to ships and bridges will be only a matter of a comparatively short time.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
And the rusty hulls of the new ships showing the sky through the steel lace of their rivetless sides were fairer than the sky.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
