Gib

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A plain or notched, often wedge-shaped piece of wood or metal designed to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface, usually adjusted by a screw or key.
  • v. To fasten with a gib.
  • n. A male cat, especially a castrated one.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
  • n. A castrated male cat or ferret.
  • v. To fasten in place with a gib.
  • n. Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
  • v. To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A male cat; a tomcat.
  • verb-intransitive. To act like a cat.
  • n. A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
  • v. To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
  • verb-intransitive. To balk. See jib, v. i.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hooked stick.
  • n. A wooden support for the roof of a coal-mine.
  • n. A piece of iron used to clasp together the pieces of wood or iron of a framing which is to be keyed.
  • n. In steam-mach., a fixed wedge used with the driving-wedge or key to tighten the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting-rod.
  • n. The projecting arm of a crane; a gibbet. Also jib.
  • n. A familiar name for a cat; hence, as a generic name, any cat, especially an old cat: commonly used for the male.
  • To behave like a cat.
  • To castrate, as a cat.
  • To eviscerate or disembowel, as a fish. Also gip.
  • n. The wedge or adjusting-shoe by which wear is taken up at a sliding contact, such as a cross-head moving on guides.
  • n. A prism.
  • n. The hooked mandible of the male salmon or trout which is formed during the breeding-season.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a castrated tomcat
  • n. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    gibbed    gibbing    gibs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    gibbed    gibbing    jib   
    Form
    gibbed    gibbing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tomcat    disembowel   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gibb    Lib    ad-lib    bib    bibb    crib    glib    jib    kibbe    lib   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    herse'f    erway    tole    ober    whar    b'lieve    niggah    yander    fergit    befo'