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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

gasket, a rope, plaited cord, or strip of canvas used to secure a sail, when furled, to a yard or boom of a vessel. In large square-rigged ships gaskets were passed with three or four turns round both sail and yard, with the turns spaced well out. The bunt gasket, which had to hold the bunt, the heaviest part of a square sail when furled, was sometimes made of strong netting. In the old seamanship manuals of the 17th and early 18th centuries the word is sometimes written as caskets. The modern term, used by yachtsmen, is ‘tier’.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

gas·ket / ˈgaskit/ • n. 1. a shaped piece or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device. 2. a cord securing a furled sail to the yard, boom, or gaff of a sailing vessel. PHRASES: blow a gasket 1. inf. lose one's temper. 2. suffer a leak in a gasket of an engine.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

gasket (naut.) small rope securing a furled sail. XVI. of unkn. orig.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

gasket •adit •bandit, pandit •accredit, credit, edit, subedit •Chindit • conduit •audit, plaudit •pundit • refit • misfit • benefit •profit, prophet, soffit •forfeit • outfit • Tophet • photofit •buffet, tuffet •comfit • counterfeit • surfeit • agate •margate, target •frigate • Tlingit • hogget •drugget, nugget •Brigitte • gadget • eejit •Bridget, digit, fidget, midget, widget •budget •Blackett, bracket, jacket, packet, placket, racket •blanket • gasket • bedjacket •straitjacket • lifejacket • leatherjacket •downmarket, market, upmarket •basket, casket •breadbasket • Euromarket •Newmarket • hypermarket •Becket, Beckett •cricket, midwicket, picket, picquet, piquet, pricket, snicket, thicket, ticket, wicket •trinket •biscuit, brisket, frisket •identikit •brocket, crocket, Crockett, docket, locket, pocket, rocket, socket, sprocket •airpocket • pickpocket • skyrocket •toolkit •bucket, Nantucket, tucket •Blunkett, junket •musket • rust bucket •circuit, short-circuit

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