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Gasket
·noun Any ring or washer of packing. II. Gasket ·noun The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, a...

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gasket
A cord, or piece of plaited stuff, to secure furled sails to the yard, by wrapping it three or four ...

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Bunt
·vi To swell out; as, the sail bunts. II. Bunt ·add. ·noun A push or shove; a butt;. III. Bunt ·ad...

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bunt
An apron. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bunt
n. a Queensland fungus growing on wheat,fetid when crushed. Tilletia caries, Tul., N.O. Fungi. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
to bunt
To push with horns; to butt. This word is given by Webster, but is not in the English dictionaries. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bu.nt
smut in corn. Northampt. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
bunt-fair
Before the wind. ...

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bunt-jigger
A small gun-tackle purchase, of two single blocks, one fitted with two tails, used in large vessels ...

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bunt slab-lines
Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...

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bunt of a sail
The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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toss up the bunt, to
In furling a sail, to make its final package at the centre of the yard when in its skin. ...

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touch up in the bunt, to
To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly. ...

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