rivettus

rivettus [ME, OF rivet], clinch, fastening in which the end of the nail is beaten down into the substance through which it has passed, rivet-head. 1234 pro xvj milibus clavorum curtorum cum rivetis emptis Pipe m. 16d.; 1295 item in dc clavis qui dicuntur gross’ custur’ ad galeam predictam ‥ cum rivectis ad eandem KR Ac 571/3 m. 2; c1300 pro d magnis clavis et ~is ‥ emptis, v s. Ib. 486/9 m. 3; c1300 in vm et dim. clavorum de majori custura cum rivectis pro eisdem, vj li. xiij s. Ib. 501/23 m. 1.

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