society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for furling sails > for securing furled sail to yard > ring of rope for tying gasket to (2)
A ring or wreath of rope, spec. one consisting of a single strand laid three times round. One of those used to secure the upper edge of a sail to its…
= grummet, n.2 (in various senses).