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 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
To prevent the cotter opening out the strap, and to increase the sliding surface, a gib H is introduced.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan
By thus acting in opposite directions the screws serve to check each other, holding the gib rigidly in place.
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
Sketch a connecting rod end, with strap, gib, and cotter.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan
"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
I said we'd be in Gib. in an hour.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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
Like to have the experiences of that thrilling voyage, past the Bay, past Gib., along the Mediterranean, through the Canal to the glowing East!
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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, Frank and Kathy set up shop in what had once been Arnold’s living room, using the dining room table and dragging the kitchen table in too.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
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
Slide rests for self-acting or engine lathes are divided into seven kinds, termed respectively as follows: simple, or single, elevating, weighted, gibbed, compound, duplex, and duplex compound.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
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)
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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