grommet

• grummet
• gromet

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɒm.ɪt/, /ˈɡɹʌm.ɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑ.mɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmɪt

grommet (plural grommets)

1. A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
2. (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.
3. (surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.

   What do you over the pond skaterboarders ^[sic] say? Is there a global term to be used to label someone as a skateboarder? Does it matter? I suppose the only one you can apply widely is ‘grommet’.

4. A boy serving on a ship.

• (surfer, snowboarder): grom

• drop grommet

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

1. (transitive) To insert a grommet into.
   • 1923, “American Machinist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 58, number 23-26, page 919:

     The device takes the form of a guard for the punch presses which are used in grommeting mail bags in the process of manufacture.

   • 2007, Wil McCarthy, The Wellstone, page 225:

     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.
3. (intransitive) To apply grommets.

• Grommet in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.