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- noun Plural form of
riveter .
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Examples
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Reproduced here in facsimile, that book celebrates riveters and girder-wranglers, including the men like the one above who toiled atop the Empire State Building.
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The white rabbit glowed luminous in the darkness; by its light they made their way over railway lines and between railway trucks, past docks lined with empty, deserted ships, past the caissons of dry docks sheltering the monstrous bulk of great vessels ablaze with welding torches and vibrant with the clatter of the riveters.
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Since this economy was going through the transition of moving from a war economy to a peace economy and all of those rosy riveters and people working in the ...
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Mr. POLLACK: Well, this very opening, with this repeated note figure is meant to depict riveters, and it was meant to give a landscape, an impression of a Russian composer coming to New York and seeing the construction of skyscrapers and the like.
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Women welders and riveters usually made significantly less money than did their male counterparts, and when the war ended, most of them left manufacturing and many of them left the workforce altogether.
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Women welders and riveters usually made significantly less money than did their male counterparts, and when the war ended, most of them left manufacturing and many of them left the workforce altogether.
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The thunderous drumming was continuous; sometimes it faded into a background for clattering storms as of thousands of machine guns, thousands of riveters at work at once upon a thousand metal frameworks; sometimes it was nearly submerged beneath splitting crashes as of meeting meteors of hollow steel.
The Metal Monster 2004
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The sound of riveters and metal bashing made it hard to converse.
Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002
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The sound of riveters and metal bashing made it hard to converse.
Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002
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The sound of riveters and metal bashing made it hard to converse.
Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002
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