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How to pronounce riveter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rivetter
Type of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
Derivation rivet
Type Words
Synonyms riveting machine, rivetter
Type of machine
Derivation rivet

Examples of riveter

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I understand that it doesn't matter what the riveter believes but the engineer?
From the economist.com
I understand that it doesn't matter what the riveter believes but the engineer?
From the economist.com
His mother worked as a welder, a riveter, farm worker, schoolteacher, stenographer and toxicologist's assistant.
From the guardian.co.uk
After graduating from high school in Walsenburg, she went to San Francisco and worked as a riveter in a shipyard.
From the denverpost.com
James Alexander Carlisle, whose grandfather was a Titanic riveter, has bluntly denounced the rivet theory on his Web site.
From the nytimes.com
Geraldine Hoff Doyle was the inspiration for Rosie the riveter, photographed here at Boeing's Plant 2 in 1942.
From the smh.com.au
The most common machine is the impact riveter and the most common use of semitubular rivets is in lighting, brakes, ladders, binders, HVAC duct work, mechanical products, and electronics.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt.
From the time.com
Any sucker for a Zippo lighter, a cracked leather flight jacket, the music of Glenn Miller or the recollection of a sassy riveter with a mouth like a beesting would have found peace in this field.
From the time.com
More examples
  • A worker who inserts and hammers rivets
  • Riveting machine: a machine for driving rivets
  • A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or pre-drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked (i. ...
  • A tool with pliers-like handles and nose piece to insert rivets. It is used, for example, in body repair work to rivet sheet metal material together.
  • (n.): a tool used to fasten rivets. Rivets are small metal bolts or pins used to attach fabric and leather pieces together