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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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
If one end has a key and gib or gibs, but no bolt, as at the small end 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
Me gib you twenty, fousand, plenty, plenty brass rods!'
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
"Yer don ax me fer gib yer suffin jes' now; and I ain't got nuffin 'cep' my close what I got on."
From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence
"He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor."
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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.
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
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
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
“Fishery managers must increase protections to save North Atlantic right whales so seafood retailers, consumers, and restaurants can put American lobster and crab back on the menu,” Oceana campaign director Gib Brogan said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
“And Gib is an administrative assistant without peer,” Arnold finished.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
The carrier, upon which is mounted the driving spindle, is gibbed to the head, and has a vertical range sufficient to allow work 18 inches high to pass under centres.
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 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
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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