Definition of "godet" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) A drinking cup.

2. (sewing) A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset.

3. (textiles) A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.

   • 1991, Textile Asia, Volume 22, Issues 1-6, page 54, Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets. After the yarn guiding block a heated godet with idler roll acts as a spinning godet and thus defines spinning […] .