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gusset

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌsɪt/

The English word “gusset” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
  2. A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
  3. A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
  4. An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
  5. A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
  6. An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.

verb

  1. To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.

Etymology

From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset (“the hollow of the armpit”), diminutive of gose, gosse (“bean pod, hull, husk”).

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