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pince à riveter — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • riveter noun A person whose job is to rivet.

Senses

pince à riveter is used for these senses in English:

  • riveter A machine or tool used to apply rivets.

riveter — full definition

  1. noun A person whose job is to rivet.
  2. noun A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also incl
  3. noun A tool used to fix rivets.
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