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the Fourth Week of Advent
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Rivet
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(0. Fr. rivet, from river, to fix, fasten together, of unknown origin; Skeat compares Icel. rifa, to stitch together), a metal pin or bolt used to fasten metal plates together. A rivet, made of wrought iron, copper or other malleable substance, is usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered out after passing through the plates so as to keep them closely fastened together, A "bolt" differs from a rivet in that one or both ends have screw-threads to hold a nut (see Shipbuilding) .
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Rivet'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/rivet.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Rivet'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/rivet.html. 1910.
