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Noun

grommet (plural grommets)

  • A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
  • (nautical) A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay.
  • (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard.
  • (slang, surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
    • ✤ Synonyms: grem, gremlin, gremmie, gremmy
  • A boy serving on a ship.

Verb

grommet (third-person singular simple present grommets, present participle grommeting, simple past and past participle grommeted)

  • (transitive) To insert a grommet into.
    • ✤ The device takes the form of a guard for the punch presses which are used in grommeting mail bags in the process of manufacture.1
    • ✤ There was little point in grommeting the hole, since the wrapping was already as rigid and tough as its invisibility permitted.2
  • (transitive) To fasten using a grommet.
  • (intransitive) To apply grommets.

Etymology

From obsolete French gromette (“curb chain”) (modern spelling gourmette).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɹɒm.ɪt/, /ˈɡɹʌm.ɪt/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑ.mɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒmɪt

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Footnotes

  1. 1923, “American Machinist”, in ‎, volume 58, numbers 23-26, page 919: ↩

  2. 2007, Wil McCarthy, The Wellstone ‎, page 225: ↩

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