a hooked prolongation that develops during the spawning season on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
Machinery.
a thin, wedgelike strip of metal for controlling the area in which a moving part, as the table of a milling machine, slides.
a keylike part having a head at each end, used with a matching cotter as a fastening.
(in carpentry or ironwork) a heavy metal strap for fastening two members together.
a cat, especially a male cat.
a castrated cat.
First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain
1350–1400; Middle English gib ( be ), short for Gilbert proper name
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By employing a gib instead of a weight, the bed may be provided with cross girts or ribs joining the two sides of the shear, thus giving much greater stiffness to it.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
To insure a close contact of the gib against the vertical surface of the slide, the screws b are placed in a line slightly outside of the line of the screws a.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The blacksmithing will in most cases render it necessary to file out the keyways, and this again entails the making of a new gib and key.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Me gib you twenty, fousand, plenty, plenty brass rods!'
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
This, however, may be done by the employment of a bolt as well as a gib and key, as is shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
"He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor."
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
I laid in a stock once at Gib., when we did the southern rowt.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
Either we intend to go through Gib., or we will go straight north to Marseilles, well to the west of Sardinia.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George
At Gib. we had been told that a rumour had reached England, and appeared in the "Daily Mail," that the "Aquitania" had been torpedoed.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George
Our days at pleasant "Gib." are drawing to a close.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by Smith, J. J.
Amy Gardiner-Gibson, who also goes by the name Amu Gib, has joined three others in ending the strike after reportedly being taken to hospital.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
At least two other Texas prisons, the Gib Lewis Unit and the John B. Connally Unit, have their own version of the dungeon.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
“It’s devastating to hear about another loss to North Atlantic right whales,” said Gib Brogan, a campaign director at Oceana, an international conservation group based in Washington.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Gib Stevens, 57, of Hobbs, leads trucking operations for an oilfield servicing company.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
“And Gib is an administrative assistant without peer,” Arnold finished.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
It is gibbed to the under cutter frame u′ by the sliding gib x, the left hand head h being moved across the frame by the screw f′.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
This base has a slide way in which a gibbed slide carrying a head is free to travel longitudinally.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The lower end of the matcher is held in place by being gibbed to the cross tie p′, Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
To the face of the standard is gibbed a sliding knee e.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Poor old Saxby was always anxious that no kind of"—Prescott gibbed at the word for a moment or two—"no kind of slur should be attached....
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
Meanwhile the boat is plunging along through the water, the helm lashed or in beckets, and the skipper hard at work with a knife or gibbing mitt.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
That little fella is in tune with all the world!" she declared; "but those people do be always gibbing and gabbing!
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
A long-legged mule, after gibbing enough to satisfy his own self-respect, condescended to trot off with us up the tramway, which lay along a green drove strangely like one in the Cambridgeshire fens.
From At Last by Kingsley, Charles
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