Rivet

subs. (common).—In pl. = money: see RHINO.

  Verb. (colloquial).—To marry; TO HITCH (q.v.); TO SPLICE (q.v.).

  1700.  CONGREVE, The Way of the World, i. 2. “Sir, there’s such coupling at Pancras that they stood behind one another as ’twere in a country dance … so we drove round to Duke’s Place, and there they were RIVETTED in a trice.”