head gasket

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   a gasket to seal a cylinder head

   Broadergasket

Questions about head gasket

What does head gasket mean?

head gasket means "a gasket to seal a cylinder head".

Is head gasket a common word?

head gasket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.