Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gasket which confines the bunt of a square sail when furled. Formerly called
breast-gasket .
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Examples
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Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes
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Clear away that bunt-gasket on the royal-yard, "he added in a roar.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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