gasket

gasket is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

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

Common word forms

gaskets, gasketed

Words from these letters

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