gasket

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  1. 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.
  2. noun Nautical A cord or canvas strap used to secure a furled sail to a yard boom or gaff.

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  • In each new story, the design had been refined: this gasket was added, or that joint was improved. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
  • Just behind the takeaway scoops was a gasket, and behind that were holes designed to inject and coat the interior of the tunnel behind the head with a smooth layer of chemical and weather-resistant plastic. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • If the gasket is worn out, you'll need to grease the new one well before you reassemble, and it'll take a few days for the grease to soften the gasket well enough so it seals properly. —  Bike Hugger
  • Despite a new freezer gasket, the condensation continued. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • I replaced the gas cap because I noticed the gasket was dried out, but that didn't help. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
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  1. Perhaps alteration of French garcette, small cord, diminutive of garce, girl, from Old French, feminine of gars, boy, soldier; see garçon.

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  1. apparently corrupted from French garcette, a gasket, a cat-o'-nine-tails, from Spanish garceta, a gasket, hair which falls in locks on the temples; origin unknown. The Italian gaschetta, a gasket, appears to be from English
  2. gasket, n.
 

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