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- Gasket - 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.
- Gasket - n. - The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
- Gasket - n. - Any ring or washer of packing.
- Furl - v. t. - To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.