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
This may be remedied by making the point of the screw of such a cone that it will bed fair against gib c, without passing into a recess, the construction being as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
It is gibbed to the bed plate z by the gib f, which is so constructed as to be free from dirt.
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
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
"He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor."
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Another hour will see us at Gib., lads," he announced joyously.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
She never came down to Gib. that I know of, but the Major went back once or twice.
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
"The last letter, which I received at Gib. ten days ago, was from the Hotel Bristol, at Botzen, in the Tyrol, yet Bartlett says she has been seen down at Eastbourne."
From The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love by Le Queux, William
I said we'd be in Gib. in an hour.
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
"He learned his English as a waiter in Gib."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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
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
The bed upon which the timber is placed to be mortised is gibbed to a sliding frame, which allows it to be set to any position, with the chisel straight or at an angle.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
To the face of the standard is gibbed a sliding knee e.
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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