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noun

Gasket n.

(Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

(Mech.)

(a)

The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.

(b)

Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.

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Etymology of 'Gasket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gasket" Quotes from Famous Books

... New Panama," he cried. "Do you mind old Ben Gasket we took off Silver Key last summer! Eighty years old he was, and marooned there for half his life. He was with Morgan at the great sack of Old Panama before most on us was born. An' Old Ben, he ...

— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader

... The sail would fill out Eke a balloon, with a report like a small cannon, and then collapse and sink away into a handful. And the feeling of mastering the rebellious canvas, and tying it down like a slave to the spar, and binding it over and over with the gasket, had a touch of pride and power in it, such as young King Richard must have felt, when he trampled down the insurgents ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... has a threaded post, and uses a lead alloy nut with a rubber washer to make a tight joint. Still another method forces a lead collar down over the post, and presses the cover down on a soft rubber gasket. ...

— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte

Words linked to "Gasket" : O ring