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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Now, the wear in the direction of a acts directly to cause this inequality of gib fit, whereas that in the direction of b does so to a less extent, as will appear hereafter.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Next comes putting in the new key and gib, or refitting the old gib.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
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
Mudder plenty tired fust; muss stand all de night in hut; no gib no food; her no can go no more; tumble down in forest.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
