Crossword-Solution: GASKET 6 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The seaman on watch continued only two hours; he who kept watch at this time was a tall, slender man of a black complexion; he had no greatcoat nor over-all of any kind, but was simply dressed in his ordinary jacket and trousers; his hat was tied under his chin with a napkin, and he stood aft the foremast, to which he had lashed himself with a gasket or small rope round his waist, to prevent his falling upon deck or being washed overboard.

Name them, indeed! Why, my pretty niece, Miss Magnet, what do you think of that main-boom now? To my ignorant eyes, it is topped at least a foot too high; and then the pennant is foul; and--and--ay, d---me, if there isn't a topsail gasket adrift; and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there should be a round turn in that hawser, if the kedge were to be let go this instant.

When we got upon the yard, my hands were so numb that I could not have cast off the knot of the gasket to have saved my life.

From for’ard, on the main deck, I heard him snarl: “On the main-topsail-yard, there!—if you cut that gasket I’ll split your damned skull!” Again he called, with a marked change of voice, and the Henry he called to I concluded was the training-ship boy.

When we got upon the yard, my hands were so numb that I could not have cast off the knot of the gasket if it were to save my life.