Usually means: Reinforcement pieces for structure, flexibility.
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  1. gussets: Merriam-Webster
  2. gussets: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gussets: Vocabulary.com
  4. gussets: Wordnik
  5. gussets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gussets: Wiktionary
  7. gussets: Dictionary.com
  8. Gussets: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (gusset)

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.
noun:  A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
noun:  (machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular part, 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.
noun:  (heraldry) An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
noun:  (roofing) 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:  (transitive) To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.
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