Gasket

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  • noun. Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
  • noun. A cord or canvas strap used to secure a furled sail to a yard boom or gaff.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fasten with gaskets, as a sail to a yard.
  • noun. Nautical, one of several bands of sennit or canvas, or small lines, used to bind the sails to the yards, gaffs, or masts when furled. Also called casket.
  • noun. In machinery, a strip of leather, tow, plaited hemp, or similar material, used for packing a piston, as of the steam-engine and its pumps.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
  • noun. Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
  • noun. A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration. - ASTM
  • noun. Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid. - American Heritage Dictionary
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint
    • cross-reference
    blow a gasket  bunt gasket  bust a gasket  quarter gasket  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    seal  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    O-ring  harbor gaskets  head gasket  sea gaskets  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    basket  casket  mascot  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ammeter  clamp  diaphragm  elastomer  fitting  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    air hole  armhole  blowhole  bullet-hole  bunghole  
    variant
    casket  
    verb-form
    gaskets  
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