Part 4791

<hw>Gib</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Gib and key</col>, &or; <col>Gib and cotter</col></mcol> <fld>(Steam Engine)</fld>, <cd>the fixed wedge or <i>gib<i>, and the driving wedge,<i>key<i>, or <i>cotter<i>, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gib</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gibbed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gibbing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.</def>

<cs><col>Gibbed lathe</col>, <cd>an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gib</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To balk. See <er>Jib</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt></def>

<i>Youatt.</i>

<h1>Gibbartas</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib*bar"tas</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Ar. <ets>jebb\'ber</ets> giant; or L. <ets>gibber</ets> humpbacked: cf. F. <ets>gibbar</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also <altname>Jupiter whale</altname>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>jubartas</asp>, <asp>gubertas</asp>, <asp>dubertus</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Gibber</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"ber</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Gib</er> to balk.]</ety> <def>A balky horse.</def>

<i>Youatt.</i>

<h1>Gibber</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"ber</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gibbered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gibbering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Akin to <ets>jabber</ets>, and <ets>gabble</ets>.]</ety> <def>To speak rapidly and inarticulately.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Gibberish</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"ber*ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Gibber</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.</def>

<blockquote>He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of <b>gibberish</b> he had learnt to known. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such <b>gibberish</b> as children may be heard amusing themselves with. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gibberish</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"ber*ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Unmeaning; <as>as, <ex>gibberish</ex> language</as>.</def>

<h1>Gibbet</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"bet</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gibet</ets>, F. <ets>gibet</ets>, in OF. also club, fr. LL. <ets>gibetum</ets>;; cf. OF. <ets>gibe</ets> sort of sickle or hook, It. <ets>giubbetto</ets> gibbet, and <ets>giubbetta</ets>, dim. of <ets>giubba</ets> mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. <ets>gibba</ets> (cf. <er>Jupon</er>); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. <ets>gibbus</ets> hunched, humped, E. <ets>gibbous</ets>; or cf. E. <ets>jib</ets> a sail.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.</def>

<h1>Gibbet</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gib"bet</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gibbeted</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gibbeting</er>.]</wordforms>