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- English Word Riveter Definition One who rivets.
- English Word Riveting Definition of Rivet
- English Word Riveting Definition The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
- English Word Riveting Definition The whole set of rivets, collectively.
- English Word Riving Definition of Rive
- English Word Rivose Definition Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
- English Word Rivulet Definition A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
- English Word Rix-dollar Definition A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
- English Word Rixation Definition A brawl or quarrel.
- English Word Rixatrix Definition A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- English Word Rixdaler Definition A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.
- English Word Rizzar Definition To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock.
- English Word Ro-setta stone Definition A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
- English Word Roach Definition A cockroach.
- English Word Roach Definition A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
- English Word Roach Definition An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
- English Word Roach Definition The redfin, or shiner.
- English Word Roach Definition A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
- English Word Roach Definition To cause to arch.
- English Word Roach Definition To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
- English Word Roach-backed Definition Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.
- English Word Road Definition A journey, or stage of a journey.
- English Word Road Definition An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
- English Word Road Definition A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
- English Word Road Definition A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
- English Word Roadbed Definition In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
- English Word Roadless Definition Destitute of roads.
- English Word Roadmaker Definition One who makes roads.
- English Word Roadside Definition Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
- English Word Roadstead Definition An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.