Crossword-Solution: RIVET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rivet | n. | 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. |
| Rivet | v. t. | To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron. |
| Rivet | v. t. | 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. |
| Rivet | v. t. | Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIVET | anagram | TREVI, VERTI, VIRET |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with RIVET (5)
All efforts I had previously made to secure my freedom had not only failed, but had seemed only to rivet my fetters the more firmly, and to render my escape more difficult.
Sandeford; here is your money, and I wish you a very good evening.” When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes’s movements were such as to rivet our attention.
Frank Churchill, I must tell you my mother’s spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again.
Sandeford; here is your money, and I wish you a very good evening.” When our visitor had disappeared Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention.
The gongs beat with a deafening din as the doors of the shrine open and the monkey-god is revealed; almost the whole congregation rivet ecstatic eyes on him.
Quotes with RIVET (3)
Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to battle against it, alone and unassisted - not taught to avoid the snares of life, but boldly to rush into them, or over them, as he may - to seek danger rather than shun it, and feed his virtue by temptation - would you-''I beg your pardon, Mrs Graham - but you get on too fast. I have not yet said that a boy should be taught to rush into the snares of life - or even wilfully to se…
... Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature possesses, and if one of them should fail, he must diminish from his noble stature. Sin only can disenfranchise him, and veil his likeness to the Highest Good; whereby the light in him is lessened and grows pale. Ne'er can he win back dignities so high till the void made by guilt be all filled in with just amends paid for by illicit joy. Now, w…
People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among the details, not in the realm of pure generality. We must tackle and grasp the larger, encompassing themes of our universe, but we make our best approach through small curiosities that rivet our attention - all those pretty pebbles on the shoreline of knowledge. For the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 252 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).