grummet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It had grummets and was laced down at the edge with cord.
From Literature
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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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