gusset

Meanings

Noun

• A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
• A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
• A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, 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.
• An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
• 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.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset.