Part 4666

<hw>Gab"bro</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).</def>

<h1>Gabel</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga"bel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gabelle</ets>, LL. <ets>gabella</ets>, <ets>gabulum</ets>, <ets>gablum</ets>; of uncertain origin. Cf.<er>Gavel</er> tribute.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.</def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<blockquote>He enables St. Peter to pay his <b>gabel</b> by the ministry of a fish. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gabeler</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga"bel*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>A collector of gabels or taxes.</def>

<h1>Gabelle</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga`belle"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Gabel</er>.]</ety> <def>A tax, especially on salt.</def> <mark>[France]</mark>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<h1>Gabelleman</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga*belle"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A gabeler.</def>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Gaberdine</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gab`er*dine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Gabardine</er>.</def>

<h1>Gaber-lunzie</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gab"er-lun`zie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gael. <ets>gabair</ets> talker + <ets>lunndair</ets> idler.]</ety> <def>A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Gabert</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gab"ert</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf.F.<ets>gabare</ets>, Arm. <ets>kobar</ets>, <ets>gobar</ets>.]</ety> <def>A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Jamieson.</i>

<h1>Gabion</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga"bi*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[F., from It. <ets>gabbione</ets> a large cage, gabion, from <ets>gabbia</ets> cage, L. <ets>cavea</ets>. See <er>Cage</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Hydraul. Engin.)</fld> <def>An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.</def>

<h1>Gabionade</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Ga`bi*on*ade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gabionnade</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.</def>

<h1>Gabionage</h1> <Xpage=606>