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ryvett

ryvett is the alternative form 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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Forms of ryvett

pluralryvetts

Questions about ryvett

What is ryvett the alternative form of?
Ryvett is the alternative form of rivet.

Words near ryvett in the dictionary

  1. Ryukyus
  2. ryus
  3. ryuteki
  4. ryuvidine
  5. Ryves
  6. ryvett
  7. ryvetts
  8. Ryvita
  9. Rywingate
  10. Ryzhivka
  11. ryō

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