gasket

Meaning of gasket

noun
  1. a shaped sheet or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device.
    oil was leaking from the gasket between the drive flange and the hub
  2. a cord securing a furled sail to the yard of a sailing ship.

early 17th century (in gasket (sense 2)): perhaps from French garcette ‘thin rope’ (originally ‘little girl’), diminutive of garce, feminine of gars ‘boy’.

Information about gasket

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of gasket is: gaskets.
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Hyphenation of gasket

gas-ket

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • gasket is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of gasket

Words that rhyme with gasket

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