Definitions for ribband

ribband rib·band

Spelling: [rib-band, rib-uh nd, -uh n]
IPA: /ˈrɪbˌbænd, ˈrɪb ənd, -ən/

Ribband is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in ribband (abbdinr).

Definitions for ribband

noun

  1. Also, ribbon. Shipbuilding. a strip of wood or metal running fore-and-aft along frames to keep them in the proper position until the shell planking or plating is in place.
  2. Carpentry. ribbon (def 8).
  3. riband.

Origin of ribband

First recorded in 1705-15; rib1 + band2

Examples for ribband

He ought to get no more by it, than a poor silk-weaver does by the ribband which he works, to make a gallant fine.

These ribband fillings are not incidental, but are placed there to prevent too sharp an outline.

La Touche listened, standing, and still holding the ribband of seaweed in his fingers.

"The ribband worn in the hat" was styled "a favour" previous to the Scotch Covenanters' nick-naming it a cockade.

This circumstance offended the "ribband" men, who in open day lodged a bullet in his heart, in a populous neighbourhood.

E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.

Cockade is a ribband worn in the hat, as defined by Dr. Johnson.

When I reach Drumcairn, I will have a ribband and suspend it round my neck.

In ship-building, is a ribband placed between the floor and the keel.

Even the colour of a shoe, the knot of a ribband, or your attitude in plucking a rose, were of moment to be recorded.

Word Value for ribband
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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