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rivetn.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rivet. Etymology: < Old French, Middle French rivet (French rivet ) short pin or bolt, the headless end of which is flattened or beaten out after insertion in order to fasten two or more things securely together (1260, although earlier currency is suggested by post-classical Latin rivettus : see below) < river to fetter (a person) securely with chains and irons (c1165 in past participle rivez ), to turn (the end of a nail) over and hammer it back into the material through which it has been driven (c1200), to fix, clinch (a thing) with rivets (1433; French river ; < rive rive n.1 in its specific sense ‘rim, margin, edge’, although this sense is apparently first attested later: 1314) + -et -et suffix1. Compare ( < French) post-classical Latin rivettus (1234, c1300 in British sources), Middle Dutch rivet (1361; Dutch rivet ). With sense 3, which is unparalleled in French and apparently shows a transferred use, compare earlier almain rivet n. Earlier currency is probably implied by riveter n.The instance in quot. c1450 at sense 2a may mean ‘welt of a shoe’, and if so may show a different word: compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French rivet welt of a shoe (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman; probably < rive border, edge (see rive n.1) + -et -et suffix1); there appears to be no independent evidence for post-classical Latin cnusticium , a word of unknown meaning and origin. It is unclear whether the following earlier occurrences are to be taken as showing the Middle English, the French, or the Latin noun:1295 in Antiquaries Jrnl. (1927) 7 430 dc clavorum minorum, rivettis ad eosdem.1358–9 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1951) I. 151 Diuers bolt. ferri, clauorum cum ruuett, voc. clench. Quot. 1392-3 is here taken as showing the English noun because of its proximity to another vernacular noun, clench n. The following quot. may reflect the Middle French plural form rives , although the reading is disputed ( Middle Eng. Dict. at ring n. takes the form ryues as a transmission error for rynges , plural of ring n.1):c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1764 All þe rowte ryngez Of ryues and raunke stele and ryche golde-maylez. The β. forms show lowering of Middle English i to e. society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > parts of nails 1392–3 in L. Wright (1996) 159 Item Solut' Willelmo fabro pro clench & ryuett ferri empt' pro dicto batell & pro alijs operibus ferri. ?1435 in R. R. Sharpe (1911) K. 198 [The bars with double] naille [with a] ryvet [under]. a1661 W. Brereton (1844) 88 Made of thin plates nailed together, and strong square rivets upon the nail heads. 1753 Suppl. Rivet, in the manege, is the extremity of the nail that rests or leans upon the horn when you shoe a horse. 1775 J. Clark (new ed.) ii. ix. 198 Injudicious shoeing, under which may be included,..the shoe projecting over the inside edge of the hoof, the clenches or rivets of the nails rising above the surface of the crust. 2. society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rivet a1450 (1885) 43 It [sc. the ark] sall be cleyngked euer-ilka dele With nayles... Take here a revette and þere a rewe. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 573/37 Cnusticium, i quedam pars sotularis, a Ryvette. 1511 in W. H. Stevenson (1885) III. 332 Neyles and revettes to ye boote. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay xi. 176 As for the smaller parts, Nailes, Pinnes, Riuets, Buttons and such, I haue thought them to be but byworks. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. 0. 13 The Armourers accomplishing the Knights, With busie Hammers closing Riuets vp. View more context for this quotation 1669 S. Sturmy ii. vii. 73 Let the Index be fastned to the Center with a Brass Rivet. 1716 tr. N. Gauger 95/1 It is expedient to fasten the several Plates with Rivets and not to be content only with soldering them, otherwise they'll not continue long joined together. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in 215 They fix attention..With oaths like rivets forced into the brain. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in (1824) 346 He flung one against the brazen rivets Of the huge caldron. 1851 J. Ruskin Pref. Bars and rivets instead of mortar for securing stones. 1884 W. H. Greenwood xvii. 400 The rivet is to be capable of bending hot without fracture. 1909 8 Feb. 3/1 The man was a ‘hammerer’—i.e., a driver of rivets into boilers. 1931 A. J. Cronin i. xii. 213 The train entered this tunnel. It entered slowly,..juddering in every bolt and rivet of its frame. 1943 (Aluminium Federation Information Bull. No. 6) 49 It is possible to make spot welds of greater strength than rivets in one-third the time required for rivets. 2007 (U.K. ed.) Nov. 11/2 Gusset plates, devices that attach steel girders together (with rivets, in the case of the Minneapolis bridge—other options are welds or bolts). 1665 E. Waterhouse xxxii. 89 Yet is Religion and Piety the best Rivet to fasten Greatness. 1672 W. Wycherley i. i You are the rivet of sanctified love. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius i. 10 The Verse in fashion, is..So smooth and equal, that no sight can find The Rivet, where the polish'd piece was join'd. 1742 E. Young 34 This carrys Friendship to her noon-tide Point, And gives the Rivet of Eternity. 1818 J. Marsden (ed. 2) 54 Remove but a rivet or pin, The wheels of our happiness drop. 1853 H. Rogers 286 Strengthening by one more rivet the dominion of evil over the soul! 1859 Feb. 414/2 We feel somehow that the hammer of despotism is driving the rivets so sharply and hard that the plates may be cracking. 1902 12 467 Discard activity, attention, endeavour, and you withdraw the rivets without which life would never be other than a chaotic manifold of sensations and feelings. 1943 W. M. Jordan i. 2 The elimination of Germany as a naval Power, removed what in pre-War years had constituted the essential rivet of the Anglo-French entente. 1995 25 June 22/2 The cream acts ‘like a molecular “rivet” to help support and hydrate the skin’. society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > plate- or scale-armour 1548 f. xxv Ouer his riuett he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse. 1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 288 Theyr horsemen are armed with pykes, ryuettes, mases of Iren, and arrowes. society > trade and finance > money > [noun] c1835 G. Kent 26/1 Rivits, money. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ (new ed.) 130/1 Rivets, money. 1848 121 Rivits, money. 1911 27 Mar. 12/6 If you'm educated, you wants to be able to live educated; an' the likes o' us can't. Us an't got the rivets. 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ xviii. 190 ‘So you got a bit of rivets to speculate?’ ‘I ain't said so. All I said as I could put up a bit.’ Compounds C1. a. General attributive. 1859 J. P. Lesley 160 Bartleyville Bloomery..made in 1854 40 tons of rivet-bar, out of magnetic ore. 1890 D. K. Clark I. 657 The diameter of the 5/ 8-inch rivet-bars was reduced to ·03 inch. 1947 T. J. Reynolds & E. Kent (ed. 8) ii. 19 The tensile breaking strength of round and square bars (other than rivet bars) shall be between the limits of 28 and 33 tons per square inch of section. 2008 J. H. McCarty & T. Foecke iii. xi. 156 Harland & Wolff ordered their wrought iron rivet bars in batches of 500 to 1500 tons at a time. 1766 June 277/1 A plan of a Wagon and its Carriage... 3. A piece to deepen out the sells. 4. Two rivet bolts to confine them. 1844 H. Stephens II. 314 The rivet-bolts are inserted and riveted down in the red-hot state. 1907 P. F. Du Pont 91 I've got to help Dave Hall unload That car o' beams an' rivet-bolts To raise the barn for Billie's colts. 2003 F. Soetens & B. W. E. M. van Hove in F. M. Mazzolani iv. 204 Huckbolts are fasteners consisting of two parts, the rivet bolt itself, with a mushroom or countersunk head, and a closing collet. 1835 5 307 In order to prevent the rivet-head being seen on the face of the button, the central part of the face may be engraved. 1927 Oct. 639/1 Every seam and rivethead bore its quota of harsh saline crystals stained with corrosion and dripping bitter brine. 1992 Jan. 14/2 Use a metal-cutting chisel or hacksaw to clip off the rivet head holding the handle. 1688 R. Holme iii. vii. 304 In the Spur there is these nominal parts. The Rowel, the Neck, the Eye or Rivet hole, and Rivet. 1797 J. Curr 44 The rivet holes of the boiler bottoms should be full 1/2 inch diameter. 1832 C. Babbage xiii. 100 Tools, by which the expense of punching the rivet-holes of each tank was reduced. 1922 23 834 In making deductions for rivet holes in tension members the holes shall be assumed one-sixteenth of an inch larger than the undriven rivet. 2002 Nov. 10/2 Book clasps;..two pierced lugs hold a separate copper-alloy hinge-pin to which is attached a hinged sheet plate with a rivet hole and a copper-alloy rivet. 1686 R. Plot iv. 169 They..binde it..with a joynted hoop of Iron, which they call a Rivet-hoop. 1833 J. Macneill 44 Countersunk rivets, made from a three-sixteenth of an inch bore,..and..from the best charcoal rivet iron. 1858 7 May 384/2 Pig iron..puddled in Yorkshire and rolled into rivet iron. 1914 20 Feb. 19/6 Manufacturers report that some large inquiries and orders are passing for ship and boiler plates, steel sheets, bar iron and rivet iron. 2009 M. E. Messere iii. 47 (caption) Wooton was remembered because he would take his wooden leg off to climb into the steam boilers and hold the rivet iron while another man struck it. 1839 2/2 The operation of this rivet-machine may be thus described. 1914 J. E. Kirkham i. 4 The driving end of a rivet consists principally of forming a head on the plane end, usually the same as the one on the other end formed by the rivet machine. 2009 (Nexis) 22 Jan. Rivet machine operator David Eldridge took a more resigned approach. 1841 4 56/1 Nail, Pin, and Rivet Machinery. 1908 S. Christie iii. 35 Rivet machinery with its power of compression ensures strength of rivet joints. 2001 1 A readily controllable, hand-held tool to form a rivet head..in an operating environment of limited space otherwise prohibited to the use of automatic rivet machinery. ?1561 T. Blundeville iii. xxxii. sig. E.iv Some of ye broken ports, & vpset mouths, are locked together with one plight wtin another, some wt a ryuet nayle, & some with a pece. 1678 E. R. i. 123 The Joynt-shooe, which is made of two pieces, with a flat Rivet-Nail joyning them together in the Toe. 1808 Apr. 320/1 A number of iron rivet-nails. 2007 R. Low vi. 133 I would tap them home with some rivet nails. 1678 J. Moxon I. iii. 52 Then fit a rivet pin for this hole, and rivet them together. 1808 2nd Ser. Jan. 85 A hole may be made through the belt; and the end of the other should have a socket, into which the head of the rivet pin may be inserted. 2008 (Nexis) July 112 The same manufacturer also chooses to drive the rivet pin all the way through the shank. 1852 R. Burn 311/1 Rivoir, riveting-hammer or the riveting-block or stake against which the rivet-shank is driven. 1869 E. J. Reed xvii. 328 The dies by which the rivet-shank is held. 2001 A. Newman iii. 146 The hot-installed rivet shank often deforms to fill the irregular shape of misaligned holes. 1889 6 Dec. 294/1 The rivet tails will be held up in various fashions according to their positions. 1978 126 690/2 On long-term creep tests at operating temperatures, it was found that the rivet heads and tails cracked. 1474 in F. Collins (1897) I. 194 (MED) Johannes Atterton, revtdryver. 1760 27 Feb. 102/2 They were nailers and rivet makers. 1828 6 Dec. Dissolutions of partnership... J Johnson, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, and J Dixon, Manchester, rivet-manufacturers. 1891 12 401 Made fast by two rivet-hammerers and a boy holding on. 1945 June 98/1 (caption) Rivet remover uses a conventional rivet gun and a new type of bucking bar. 2003 G. Burn (2004) iii. 86 He had watched many former rivet-slingers and conveyor-belt overseers develop performance skills. C2. society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > tool for driving in rivets 1916 F. R. Conley 35 He was pining for a schooner, and he longed to blow the foam, But madly grabbed the rivet gun and drove a rivet home. 1950 Sept. 297 (caption) Chattering rivet guns attach the door to a barrel section of a Constellation. 2008 G. Schipske iv. 67 (caption) The rivet gun weighed three and a half pounds and would vibrate forcefully and loudly as it pushed the rivet into the hole. 1850 in A. Stevenson (Advt. section) 36 Machines for Punching and Shearing Plates and Angle-Iron, and for Bending Plates; Rivet Hearth. 1902 XXXII. 597 The riveters also work in squads,..with sometimes a catcher, i.e., a boy to pass on the heated rivets when the distance from the rivet-hearth is great. 2004 D. Evans viii. 91/1 Cranes for quadrangle mostly complete... Rivet hearths and flues not delivered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † rivetn.2Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare earlier refet n. Obsolete. the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > liver 1530 J. Palsgrave 722 Slyt this pykes belly and take out this ryvet [Fr. sa gresse]. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 224/1 in (new ed.) I When the fishmonger hath opened his side and laid out his riuet and fat vnto the buier. 1736 N. Bailey 355 Cut the rivet or liver of the pike small and chop some oisters. 1737 (ed. 2) i. ii. 128 Your Milts Spawn and Rivets, must be laid on the Top. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). rivetn.3Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Compare also English regional rivels (plural) in the same sense, recorded by H. G. Ames ( Country Words (1999) 90) from Cumberland, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Kent. Any of several varieties of the wheat Triticum turgidum. Cf. cone-wheat n.the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant 1580 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 21 White wheat or else red, red riuet or whight, far passeth all other, for land that is light. 1686 R. Blome iii. 121/2 There are several sorts [of wheat], as the Poland Wheat both White and Red, Great and Small, the Straw Wheat, Rivet Wheat, both White and Red. 1707 J. Mortimer 98 'Tis much sown in Essex upon their Hazelly Brick-earths or Loams, as the Red-wheat and the Pole-rivet or Bearded-wheat is there. 1750 W. Ellis 31 Yet it is well known to many Yeomen and Farmers, who sow this Dugdale or Rivet-Wheat, that if the Flower of it is sifted fine, it makes the best of Pancakes. 1852 P. Lawson i. 55 Common Rivet.—Ear smaller and less compact than that of the Cone Rivet; awns more adhesive when ripe. 1935 3 Jan. 8/4 Revet, or rivet, wheat. 1980 V. 202/2 T. turgidum... Cultivated as a cereal (rivet wheat) locally throughout a large part of Europe, but mainly in the south. 2001 65 373 Well preserved wheat chaff was not present so it was not possible to establish if..tetraploid rivet wheat (T. turgidum) was represented. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 52 530 This family have been used to buy two bushels of clog-wheat, or rivets, or bearded-wheat, (as it is variously called in this county) every fortnight. 1799 30 182 Bearded wheat is called in some counties Cone wheat, in others Rivets, and in Nottinghamshire it is called Yeogrove. 1813 T. Batchelor 362 Cone wheat, or rivets, is very little used. 1895 III. 217/1 I am booking my oats at 16s., my offal barley at 20s., my rivets wheat at 20s., and my best wheat at 22s. 1926 11 Aug. 11 The Essex fields are yielding 35 bushels of the prolific sorts such as cones and revits. 1953 S. Peat in J. A. Radley (ed. 3) I. ii. 17 Barnell made observations on Rivets wheat. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey 247/1 Rivets, bearded wheat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rivetv. Inflections: Past tense and past participle riveted, rivetted; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rivet n.1 Etymology: < rivet n.1 Compare post-classical Latin rivettare (1312, 1325 in British sources).The parallel denominal French verb riveter is not attested until considerably later (1877); however, compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French river (see rivet n.1). society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools a1450 (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 2754 (MED) With a grete hamour of stele The nales he reueted wele. 1530 J. Palsgrave 690/1 I revet a nayle, je riue. Ryvet this nayle and than it wyll holde faste. 1546 S. Gardiner (new ed.) f. xxxix Mannes lyfe, death, manours,..condicion, and euery thinge is fixed, and fastened in his place appoynted, with nailes riueted & clenched with meere necessite. 1611 R. Cotgrave River, to riuet or clench; to fasten or turne backe the point of a nayle. 1678 J. Moxon I. ii. 24 When you rivet a Pin into a hole. 1683 J. Moxon II. 70 This small Shank is fitted into a small Hole made near the end of the Plate, and Revetted on the other side. 1726 N. B. 206/1 Brittle hooves split in the Places where the Nails are rivetted. 1769 W. Falconer Transl. French Terms River un clou, to rivet a nail. 1845 VIII. 299/1 Pins are sometimes inserted.., being also rivetted at each end. 1875 E. H. Knight II. 1506/1 Rose-clinch nail;..either clinched or riveted down on a washer or rove. 1922 19 July 504/2 You can't rivet a nail in a custard. 1964 L. M. Hollander tr. S. Sturluson lxxxviii. 220 Some fitting the timbers together, some shaping it with their adzes, some riveting the nails. 2007 J. M. Van Zyl 244 Paul rivets the nails with one of his faithful sayings. Physical exercise has some positive effects, but spiritual exercise has much greater benefits. 2. a. To secure or fasten with or as with rivets. society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with nails society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with rivets c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 61 With the nailes with whiche was nayled the sone of the smith..the mailes weren enclowed and rivetted. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 7577 (MED) Swerd nor spere..shal nat perce thorgh the maylle, ffor the Rynges..Wer Ryuettyd [v.r. Revettyd; Fr. rive] so myghtyly, Clenchyd and nayled so strongly. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil iii. 57 A braynsick prophetesse..whom dungeon holdeth In ground deepe riueted. 1603 M. Drayton ii. xx. 31 Their Greaues and pouldrons others riuet fast. 1663 B. Gerbier 96 Nor do provident builders rivet locks only at the one side. 1735–6 7 Feb. 2/2 One new English Cart, with wheels 7 feet high, iron axel and brass boxes, well shod, dowelled and rivetted. 1815 W. Scott v. vii. 182 Warriors, who, arming for the fight, Rivet and clasp their harness light. 1954 (Aluminium Federation Bull. 8) (1965) 8 Hot-driven mild steel rivets have long been used for riveting big aluminium structures. 1996 R. Mistry (1997) i. 42 The next time a tinker yelled outside their window, she called him to..rivet the broken handle of the kettle. 2007 N. M. Brown i. 15 Bjorkedal had a good set of nippers—farrier's tongs—but they went unused as he riveted the ship. 1530 J. Palsgrave 692/2 I ryvet peces of yron togyther. 1579 R. Galis sig. B ij.v Presently my yrons which before by workemans cunning were riuetted on,..fell of of my legges. 1679 J. Moxon I. ix. 161 Instead of Nailing the Hindges upon the Door, they Rivet them on, for more strength. 1683 J. Moxon II. 60 The Plates..are..Rivetted down through the bottom and top-sides of the Frame of the Coffin. 1845 VIII. 298/2 The next process..is to have the coaks rivetted in. 1869 E. J. Reed iv. 56 The groove or gulleting..to receive the rudder was obtained by riveting on a solid piece of iron with a hollow in it. 1893 53 559 The statue had been broken in ancient times and afterwards carefully riveted together again. 1987 Feb. 45/1 My days were spent in an aircraft factory, helping to rivet up Wellington bombers. 1581 W. Fulke f. xvii This man reasoneth altogether of necessities, and impossibilities, the strongest Cheynes that are to holde any reasons, if they were surely linked & riueted, into the causes, that hee would binde with them. 1639 R. Ward i. xix. cclxv. 383 This Cover..hath a little Button rivited on it, so that it may with ease clap up and downe. 1650 T. Fuller iv. iii. 51 Who violently brake off their ear-rings, even such as were riveted in their skin with long wearing. 1669 S. Sturmy iv. xvi. 200 A Libal or Index to be rivetted to the Center. 1713 J. Addison ii. v I've seen you..stooping from your Horse Rivet the panting savage to the ground. 1765 A. Dickson (ed. 2) ii. v. 203 A plate of iron..riveted fast into it by bolts. 1797 V. 69/1 By means of the fork..rivetted on the palettes. 1802 J. Playfair 334 The mountain of Goatfield which I have mentioned above as..rivetted..to the superincumbent rock. 1836 G. Head 204 Each of these sleepers being a heavy block of stone, having a small cradle of iron..rivetted on the top for the purpose of supporting the rails. 1873 Sept. 443/1 The most recherché..is the small diamond earring, riveted into the ear like a stud. 1894 R. O. Heslop Seam-nail, a nail without a point,..on to which a rove is rivetted. 1922 July 210/1 The modern engineer overplusses the parable and rivets men's houses not only to rock but to one another. 1941 27 190 Deck stringer plates are riveted upon the ends of each tier of beams. 1992 R. Wright v. 208 Have new plates riveted into place by a Harley mechanic using the proper rivet tools. 2005 ii. iv. 341/2 A flat rim is riveted onto the flange on top of the strainer. It is also riveted onto the added rim of the bowl. 1597 R. Naunton Let. 20 Jan. in G. Ungerer (1976) II. 110 He was..tould that..he should be sworne a Councellor within a daye or two... That this offer was but to make him sure & riuett him here from starting into England. 1608 G. Abbot 8 Both the spirit of God, and the iudgement of wise men, by significant similitudes would riuet it in into vs, and fasten it as with a naile into our cogitations, that our daies are but vanitie. a1631 J. Donne (1958) IX. 172 Sin entrenched and barricadoed in sin, sin screwed up, and riveted with sin. 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ 132 They are bonds and chains of their absolute obedience, riveted by their tongues. 1796 J. Morse (new ed.) II. 606 The Turks have rivetted the chains of barbarous ignorance which they imposed. 1799 tr. A. von Kotzebue i. ii. 4 Rivet him down to some office? promote him to some quill-driving employ? get him to copy letters? 1837 J. G. Lockhart IV. xi. 346 [It] served to rivet the bonds of affection and confidence, which were to the end maintained between him and them. 1868 E. A. Freeman II. ix. 327 To slaughter one another, for no object but to rivet the yoke of outlandish men about their necks. 1900 M. H. Hewlett (1901) ii. ix. 158 Inside the town gate they took up close order, wedgewise, linked and riveted. 1915 F. M. Hueffer iii. iv. 184 It rivetted on him the idea that he might find some other woman who would give him the moral support that he needed. 1956 S. Plath (1981) 46 They'd rivet sinews in rock And have every weathercock kiss hang fire As if to outflame a phoenix. 1964 I. Murdoch (1967) viii. 72 It was my duty to stay: that harsh word riveted me to the spot. 2001 W. Smith 486 Taita made a restraining gesture that riveted him where he stood. 3. In extended use: to fix so as to make incapable of movement, change, or removal. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > fasten or fix 1600 W. Shakespeare v. i. 169 A thing stuck on with oaths vpon your finger, and so riueted with faith vnto your flesh. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 43 Why should I write this downe, that's riuete [d] [1632 riveteds; 1663 rivitted], Screw'd to my memorie. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller ii. 107 He riveted the Archbishoprick into the City of Canterbury. 1728 J. Gay i. xiii. 18 My Hand, my Heart,..is so riveted to thine, that I cannot unloose my Hold. 1792 J. Almon (octavo ed.) I. x. 203 Great Britain was..every day more closely rivetted to the continent by fresh engagements. 1817 W. Scott III. xi. 309 Astonishment actually rivetted my tongue to the roof of my mouth. 1847 C. Brontë I. ii. 15 My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman. 1910 M. Ostrogorski xv. 348 The reform caused the law to deprive him of the safeguard of the secret ballot and to rivet him to the straight ticket. 1936 K. W. Colegrove ii. 22 Japan has riveted into her system the practice of keeping out of the army and navy any vestige of civilian control. 1989 I. D. Yalom Prol. 14 Our life, our existence, will always be riveted to death, love to loss, freedom to fear. 2000 J. K. A. Smith ii. 75 If the provisionality of human knowledge is riveted to the conditions of finitude,..then is it possible to ever overcome the provisional or ‘perspectival’ nature of human knowledge? 1601 B. Jonson i. i. sig. Bv Mer. Stay Cupid. Cup. Not in your company Hermes, except your hands were riueted at your backe. 1663 E. Waterhouse i. 11 To keep up the Prince's spirit, to harden him against despondency, to rivet on him magnanimity. 1700 E. Young ii. 45 So long as Men continu'd in the Worship of the true God, They had this Notion [sc. of Providence] riveted upon their Minds. 1793 II. lxix. 89 May it be our study to conquer the whims of the heart, before habit rivets them upon us. 1830 I. D'Israeli III. vii. 139 The affections of Henrietta were riveted on those of her royal husband. 1842 T. P. Thompson I. 162 Bribery attracts men's decision from the right; persecution rivets it upon the wrong. 1870 J. S. Howson 122 The lesson is riveted for ever on the church. 1906 A. B. Hart iv. 63 The ‘advance system’ also served to rivet upon the south its fixity of crops and economic methods, for the planter must raise the crop that would satisfy his obligations. 1941 10 36 The League organization for collective security had failed, and..a new system was being riveted on Europe by force. 2001 G. Limón i. 3 She..had lost something precious, something loved and so riveted onto her heart that reliving the dream made her feel pain. 1612 T. Taylor ii. 12 Thou reuitest thy selfe in thy sinne, and wilt not be reclaimed. 1667 E. Waterhouse 11 It is riveted in the corrupt nature of man to revenge injuries. 1709 G. Berkeley §51. 56 The Prejudice is confirm'd, and riveted in our Thoughts, by a long tract of Time. 1761 D. Hume II. xl. 402 A prince who..appeared not to be rivetted in any dangerous animosities. 1849 F. W. Robertson (1866) 1st Ser. x. 179 Things become riveted in the memory. 1897 M. Kingsley 211 Riveting him in the practice of polygamy. 1921 Nov. 117/1 Braying at the moon is more useful than trying to make Monica change her mind once she's got an idea riveted in that pretty head of hers. 1965 29 Jan. 10/2 The Government is in mourning for Sir Winston Churchill. But if his death has muted preparations it has also riveted Britain in the minds of the people. 2001 J. S. Spong ix. 161 The image of Bob Magill and Jack Spong walking together..in a memorial march for the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was riveted in the minds of the people of St. John's. 1629 H. Wotton Let. 16 Aug. in (1672) 568 It is none of the least ends of my going to rivet that business. 1672 A. Marvell i. 36 All her Excesses and Errors were further rivited and confirmed. 1773 R. Morris Diary 15–19 Jan. in (1971) 66 Fanchon constantly continuing to lie yth Mrs M...was a principal cause of keeping her importance & riveting Mrs M.'s attachment. 1788 F. Burney June (1842) IV. 153 I am wholly ignorant in what manner..his first attachment may have rivetted his affections. 1804 R. Griswold Let. 11 Mar. in H. Adams (1877) App. 356 Their enmity to commerce, on which our prosperity depends, is riveted and unyielding. 1839 H. Hallam IV. iii. 270 It is evident that until objects are truly classified, a representative method of signs can only rivet and perpetuate error. 1861 J. S. Mill 46 He never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body; and this association is riveted more and more. 1902 XI. 420 This vested right was riveted and secure as long as the conditions of the policy were complied with. 4. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)] > direct attentively 1603 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 83 Obserue his lookes, For I mine eies will riuet to his face. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid vii. 129 Her eger eyes she riuets on his face. 1769 H. Brooke IV. xvii. 228 While his attention was thus rivetted. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. xxiii. 107 She rivetted her eyes on his. 1821 W. Scott III. iv. 85 The attention..of Bunce..was rivetted to the armed sloop. 1852 M. Arnold 6 He..Rivets his gaze on the banks of the stream. 1878 R. B. Smith 198 That march riveted the attention of the world. 1923 J. Miner viii. 27 He came to examine the decoys near me and while his attention was rivetted on them I raised up and fired, and he never knew what hit him. 1967 G. Steiner 410 There are many scenes which rivet the imagination: Trotsky..writing literary and philosophic essays as vermin dropped from the walls of the hut onto the paper. 2001 V. Smith ii. 33 All attention is riveted on Carlos as he retrieves the relevant plans so the crew can do their work. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] > hold attention, absorb 1762 W. Falconer iii. 40 In dire Amazement, rivetted they stand. 1861 A. P. Stanley (1869) xii. 381 We are riveted by this strange apparition in foreign lands. 1883 M. Pattison (1885) 33 I..was riveted by the book. 1922 S. Leslie xxii. 292 Peter opened the pages and was riveted by pen and pencil caricatures of all the Eton characters he had ever heard from tradition. 1950 N. Coward 25 Jan. (2000) 142 In the afternoon read Ace of Clubs to Guthrie [McClintic], Adrianne [Allen], Joyce and Graham. Guthrie was riveted from beginning to end and reacted to every point. 2007 W. Smith 154 She glanced down without interest, and was immediately riveted by the face that looked back at her. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage 1700 W. Congreve i. i. 4 We drove round to Duke's Place; and there they were riveted in a trice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.11392 n.21530n.31580 v.a1450 |
