Definitions for gibbed

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Spelling: [gibd]

IPA: /gɪbd/

Gibbed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in gibbed (bbdegi).

Definitions for gibbed

noun

1. a hooked prolongation that develops during the spawning season on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
2. 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.
3. (in carpentry or ironwork) a heavy metal strap for fastening two members together.

adjective

1. (of a cat) castrated.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten (parts) together by means of a gib.

Origin of gibbed

First recorded in 1625-35; gib² + -ed²

Examples for gibbed

A frame consisting of two parts, f, f′, is gibbed to the edge of the shears at g and h.

This base has a slide way in which a gibbed slide carrying a head is free to travel longitudinally.

It is gibbed to the under cutter frame u′ by the sliding gib x, the left hand head h being moved across the frame by the screw f′.

It is gibbed to the bed plate z by the gib f, which is so constructed as to be free from dirt.

A gibbed slide rest is held to the shears by gibs, as in Fig. 621.

She sprang before Aminta to stop her retreat, and stamped and gibbed, for sign that she would not be driven.