riveter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person whose job is to rivet.
  2. A person whose job is to rivet.; 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 include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details. specifically
    — Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda.
  3. A tool used to fix rivets.
    — The riveter required a compressed air supply.

词形变化

riveters plural

词源

Etymology tree
English rivet
English -er
English riveter
From rivet + -er.
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