rivet

From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.

The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪvət

rivet (plural rivets)

1. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
2. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
3. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
   • a. 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 Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:

     over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse

   • 1903, The Archaeological Journal, page 105:

     In 1579 it is mentioned that Almain rivets are now out of use, and in lieu of them a corselett shall be found. The rivets varied in cost; in 1509 they were to be had for 8s., in 1512 they were imported at 16s., and again in 1513  […]

rivet (third-person singular simple present rivets, present participle riveting or rivetting, simple past and past participle riveted or rivetted)

1. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. [from early 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To install rivets.
3. (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of. [from c. 1600]
   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC, furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely — strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing — what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast./mode/1up pages The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely — strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing — what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast.:
4. (transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.

   Terror riveted him to the spot.

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• tiver, Viter, Vitré

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic رباط (ribāt), from Arabic رِبَاط (ribāṭ), from رَابَطَ (rābaṭa).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [riˈβɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [riˈvət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [riˈvet]

rivet m (plural rivets)

1. weather strip, draught excluder
2. edging, piping
3. (in the plural) hints, traces
   • 1898, Marià Vayreda, Recorts de la darrera carlinada:

     Ara, ab més reflexió, trobo que fou senzillament un acte de cobardía ab ribets de personal egoisme.

     Now, after more reflection, I find that it was simply and act of cowardice with traces of personal egoism.

• rivetar

• “rivet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin ripa.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vɛ/

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rivet m (plural rivets)

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

• “rivet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

rīvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of rīvō

rivet

1. definite singular of riv