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/gˈæskət/ Listen

noun

Gasket n.

(Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

(Mech.)

(a)

The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.

(b)

Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.

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Etymology of 'Gasket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gasket" Quotes from Famous Books

... shown in Fig. 38, the variable-resistance contact was that between a carbon and a platinum electrode. The diaphragm 1 was of sheet iron mounted, as usual in later transmitters, in a soft rubber gasket 2. The whole diaphragm was mounted in a cast-iron ring 3, supported on the inside of the box containing the entire instrument. The front electrode 4 was mounted on a light spring 5, the upper end of which was supported by a movable bar or lever 6, flexibly supported ...

— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller

... help realizing the situation of the steamer he sailed. Too late he sent his men aloft to loose the squaresail. Before they could get the gasket off, I had to port the helm to prevent striking the other steamer. All our hands were in position to do the parts before ...

— Up the River - or, Yachting on the Mississippi • Oliver Optic

... of inanition; so she made a mental note to listen for the twelve-o'clock whistle on the Tyee mill and set the clock by it. The spigot over the kitchen sink was leaking a little, and it occurred to her, in the same curious detached way, that it needed a new gasket. ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... canvas must be mastered somehow, though it was snow-soaked and almost unyielding, and he clawed at it furiously with bleeding hands while twice the bowsprit raked a sea and dipped him waist-deep in. At length the other man flung him the end of the gasket, and they worked back carefully, leaving the sail lashed down, and scrambled aft to help the others who were making the big main-boom fast. When this was done Wyllard fell against ...

— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss

... I abandoned the attempt to reef the mainsail and resolved to try the experiment of heaving to under the close-reefed foresail. 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 close-reefed foresail worked. The Ghost clung on close to the wind and betrayed ...

— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London

... "Might blow a gasket, eh?" says I. "And you want me to go up and scout around. But what if I'm caught at it—am I peddlin' ...

— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... in New Panama," he cried. "Do you mind old Ben Gasket we took off Silver Key last summer! Eighty years old he was, and marooned there for half his life. He was with Morgan at the great sack of Old Panama before most on us was born. An' Old Ben, he said there was nigh two hundred ...

— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader