gasket

gasket has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
• n.. Any ring or washer of packing.
• n.. seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint