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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The jaws of the gib are sometimes made slightly taper at a, Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
She had red shawl; she gib it me, but I make her take dollar for it.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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
Me gib you twenty, fousand, plenty, plenty brass rods!'
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
"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
March 6th.—We are nearing Gib., and as the danger gets worse here our zig-zagging has increased.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George
I said we'd be in Gib. in an hour.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
"Another hour will see us at Gib., lads," he announced joyously.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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
“This report paints a clear picture: our current safeguards are not enough,” said Gib Brogan, campaign director for Oceana, an ocean advocacy group, in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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 was taking notes for a report he’d later write and share with the team.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
Considering the road, it was not unnatural that my men gibbed a little at the eleven-day accomplishment.
From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John
This is a gibbed instead of a weighted lathe, and the method of attaching the sliding block to the lathe rest is as follows:— A separate rod is pivoted to the sliding block.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
A gibbed slide rest is held to the shears by gibs, as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The work-holding frame or vice is supported, for circular surfaces, by being pivoted to the base at o, o, and by the gibbed head d, which has journal bearing at e.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The work table t is gibbed to slideways in f, and is provided with suitable automatic feed and stop motion, and of course with a hand feed also.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
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
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