gasket

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noun
  1. a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight.

  2. Nautical. any of a number of light lines for securing a furled sail to a boom, gaff, or yard.

Origin of gasket

1
1615–25; perhaps <French garcette a plait of rope

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How to use gasket in a sentence

  • Soon after that his clash with Ben Affleck, who nearly blew a gasket, sparked a national debate over Islam.

  • If an enrollee encounters an unexpected expense of replacing a head gasket or something like that, he might skip a payment.

    Show Me the Medicaid Money | Michael Tomasky | February 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • A thin rubber gasket should be placed between the cover and the casing to provide a water-tight joint.

  • Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline.

    Down the Rhine | Oliver Optic
  • gasket lay, his head bowed over on the table and an arm flung forward.

    Port O' Gold | Louis John Stellman
  • This may be caused by leakage past the rotary valve, defective body gasket, or leakage by the feed valve or its case gasket.

  • The waterproof gasket stripped off easily, exposing the power leads, nerve wires and the weakened knee joint.

    The Velvet Glove | Harry Harrison

British Dictionary definitions for gasket

gasket

/ (ˈɡæskɪt) /


noun
  1. a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber, asbestos, etc, sandwiched between the faces or flanges of a joint to provide a seal

  2. nautical a piece of line used as a sail stop

  1. blow a gasket slang to burst out in anger

Origin of gasket

1
C17 (in the sense: rope lashing a furled sail): probably from French garcette rope's end, literally: little girl, from Old French garce girl, feminine of gars boy, servant

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Other Idioms and Phrases with gasket

gasket

see under blow a fuse.

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