Rivets
[rɪvɪts]
Examples
- The total weight of iron in the structure is about 7,000 tons, the weight of the rivets alone being 450 tons, and the total number of them 2,500,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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