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rivets

rivets is the plural of rivet.

rivets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rivet.

Meaning of rivet

Noun

rivet (plural rivets)

  1. 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.
  2. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
  3. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
    • over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crossea. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi...

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Proper noun capitalized: Rivets

Rivets

  1. (plural) plural of Rivet

Phrases with rivets

Questions about rivets

What is rivets the plural of?
Rivets is the plural of rivet.
What part of speech is rivets?
Rivets is a proper noun.

Words near rivets in the dictionary

  1. riveting sets
  2. rivetingly
  3. rivetings
  4. rivetless
  5. rivetlike
  6. rivets
  7. Rivett
  8. Rivette
  9. rivetted
  10. rivetter
  11. rivetters

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