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Gasket :: Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps..

Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels..

Stowage :: Stow (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship..

Packing :: Packing (n.) The act or process of one who packs.

Gobbing :: Gobbing (n.) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

Stripling :: Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.

Matting :: Matting (v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc..

Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..

Gasket :: Gasket (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..

Gaskins :: Gaskins (n.pl.) Packing of hemp.

Packing :: Packing (n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc..

Package :: Package (n.) A charge made for packing goods.

Packing :: Packing (n.) A substance or piece used to make a joint imperviou.

Packing :: Packing (n.) A trick; collusion.

Packing :: Packing (n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint..

Stuff :: Stuff (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass..

Packing :: Packing (n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides..

Gland :: Gland (n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing..

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