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GASKET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gasket mean?
• GASKET (noun)
The noun GASKET has 1 sense:
1. seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint
Familiarity information: GASKET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gasket" is a kind of...):
seal (fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gasket"):
head gasket (a gasket to seal a cylinder head)
O ring (a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure)
Context examples
Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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