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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Sketch a connecting rod end, with strap, gib, and cotter.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan
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 take up the wear of the tool-carrying slide, a gib m and set-screws p are provided, and to clamp the device to the boring-bar it is split at q and furnished with screws r.
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)
When the screws b of the upper gib c, Fig.
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
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.
"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
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
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.
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
A 2023 complaint to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice made by the Texas Civil Rights Project and Texas Prison Reform requested an investigation into the practice at the Gib Lewis Unit.
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 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 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
Poor old Saxby was always anxious that no kind of"—Prescott gibbed at the word for a moment or two—"no kind of slur should be attached....
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
The lower end of the matcher is held in place by being gibbed to the cross tie p′, Fig.
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
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)
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