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riveting machine

n. a machine for driving rivets [syn: riveter, rivetter]

Usage examples of "riveting machine".

The automatic riveting machine was a fine machine and seldom failed to do what it was designed to do.

The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him.

The high, deadly chatter was like the hammering of a riveting machine.

Julie had to shut her eyes tightly to control the vertigo and nausea that racked her as the pod trembled and shook and rattled like a riveting machine gone berserk.

There was a peculiar vibration such as a riveting machine might make somewhere about, but she couldn't identify what the source of it was.

Frank hid behind a hedge and waited, his heart pounding like a riveting machine.