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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person whose job is to rivet.
2. 2
   a machine for driving rivets wordnet
3. 3
   A person whose job is to rivet.; A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details. specifically

   "Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda."

4. 4
   a worker who inserts and hammers rivets wordnet
5. 5
   A tool used to fix rivets.

   "The riveter required a compressed air supply."

Synonyms

All synonyms

rivet gunrivet gunriveting machineriveting machinerivetter

Antonyms

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de-riveter

Example

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"Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda."

Etymology

From rivet + -er.

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