grummet

[gruhm-it]

noun

1. grommet.

grummet

/ ˈɡrʌmɪt /

noun

1. another word for grommet

Example Sentences

It had grummets and was laced down at the edge with cord.

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No sooner had he left than the steersman gave the helm to a grummet,48 and the result was that the current carried the vessel upon a treacherous sandbank.

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A grummet is a washer made of twisted hemp, cotton, or other material, and coated with red-lead putty, and is placed beneath the heads of bolts, or under washers placed beneath nuts to stop leaks.

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In English, in the form “grummet,” the word was early applied to a cabin or ship’s boy.

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Its heating-surface consists wholly of tubes, which are connected by a peculiarly formed series of caps; the joints are made tight with rubber “grummets.”

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