noun. 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.

transitive verb. To fasten or secure, especially with a rivet or rivets.

transitive verb. To hammer and bend or flatten the headless end of (a nail or bolt) so as to fasten something.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To fix the attention of (someone).

transitive verb. To engross or hold (the gaze or attention, for example).

noun. The roe of a fish.

noun. 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.

noun. Bearded wheat.

noun. 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.

noun. a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.

noun. undefined

transitive verb. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets.

transitive verb. 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.

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

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

noun.  any fixed point or certain basis

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

verb. to attach or fasten parts by using rivets

verb. to install rivets

verb. to command the attention of.

noun. 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

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

verb. direct one's attention on something

verb. hold (someone's attention)

verb. 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)."