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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Inglesa no 'fraid Boloko, no 'fraid Elobela; Inglesa gib Batukuno hut, gib food, gib plenty rings.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
The finished key and gib should be left tight enough, that they will hold themselves in any position in the keyway of the strap or of the rod when standing vertical.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
De sun gib light in de hebben all round.
From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.
Say he praise de young Inglesa for shooting de hippo; say he gib massa de hippo and manioc and bananas and anyfing whatever dat massa like.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
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
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