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riveter.

A person whose job is to rivet.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɹɪvətə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɹɪvətɚ/General-American
  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.
Where this word comes from

From rivet + -er.

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