Rivet
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Surname RIVET

SOURCE: Location & Occupation
USAGE: French, English
OTHER FORMS: Rivett
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CONTRIBUTOR: LMS on 6/6/2016
LAST EDITOR: LMS on 6/6/2016   [revision history]

Meaning & History

French: from a diminutive of Old French rive ‘(river) bank’, ‘shore’ (see Rives).
Northern French and English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts (see Rivett).