Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person whose job is to rivet.

  2. A person whose job is to rivet.

    (specifically)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.

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

  3. A tool used to fix rivets.

    The riveter required a compressed air supply.

    a machine for driving rivets

Translations

3 languages

Origin

From rivet + -er.

From rivet + -er.

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Forms

plural: riveters
Singularriveter
Pluralriveters

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedrivet

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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