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gas⋅ket

  [gas-kit]
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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:
1615–25; perh. < F garcette a plait of rope
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gas·ket   (gās'kĭt)   
n.  

  1. 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.

  2. Nautical A cord or canvas strap used to secure a furled sail to a yard boom or gaff.


[Perhaps alteration of French garcette, small cord, diminutive of garce, girl, from Old French, feminine of gars, boy, soldier; see garçon.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

gasket 
1622, caskette "small rope or plaited coil used to secure a furled sail," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Fr. garcette "little girl," dim. of garce "wench," fem. of garçon (q.v.). Sense of "packing (originally of braided hemp) to seal metal joints" first recorded 1829.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

gasket

see under blow a fuse.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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