rivet
/ˈɹɪvət/ noun C1- A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
- Any fixed point or certain basis.
Plural rivets
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When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes’s movements were such as to rivet our attention.
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