ˈriveting, vbl. n.
Also 7– rivetting.
[f. rivet v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb., in lit. and fig. uses.
| 1485 in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 189 Payd for revettyng of þe plats, & for þe iiij boultes, xs. ob. 1611 Cotgr., Rivement, a riueting, a clenching. 1663 Gerbier Counsel 96 A thief..makes that single riveting of no use as to security. 1706 M. Henry Wks. (1853) II. 528/1 He prayed with them partly for..the riveting of the things he had said in their minds. 1779 T. Hutchinson Diary 1 Dec. II. 299, I think we may beat the French fleet, but if we should, it will be the rivetting of this damned Ministry. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. ix. (ed. 2) 257 The development of national mind may be but the riveting of a prejudice. 1870 Spectator 19 Nov. 1373 To prevent the rivetting of this ascendancy on the neck of Europe. |
b. With qualifying word prefixed.
| 1874 Thearle Nav. Archit. 104 The Liverpool rules require chain riveting for all double and treble riveted joints and butts. Ibid., In edge or butt riveting the space between two consecutive rows of rivets must not be less than one and a half times their diameter. |
2. attrib., as riveting hammer, riveting machine, riveting nail, riveting plate, riveting set, riveting tool.
See also Knight Dict. Mech. (1875) and Suppl. (1884).
| a 1642 Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 345/2 Clinch-bolts are clinched with a Rivetting Hammer. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 321/1 The Rivetting Hammer..is very rarely used at his Forge, unless the Work be very small. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Clous à river, a rivet, or riveting-nail to be clenched at both ends. 1802 James Milit. Dict., Riveting-plates, in gun-carriages, small square thin pieces of iron, through which the ends of the bolts pass, and are riveted upon them. 1843 Holtzapffel Turning I. 387 A rivetting-set or punch for the heads of rivets. 1843 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 115/2 The Patent Riveting Machine..constructed by Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester. 1866 Tomlinson's Cycl. Usef. Arts III. 611/2 The strong semicircular bracket carrying the fixed riveting tool. |