Definitions for ribbing

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IPA: /ˈrɪb ɪŋ/

Ribbing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in ribbing (bbgiinr).

Definitions for ribbing

noun

1. ribs collectively.
2. an assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as in cloth or a ship.
3. an act or instance of teasing.
4. one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
5. a cut of meat, as beef, containing a rib.
6. ribs, spareribs (def 2).
7. Architecture. any of several archlike members of a vault supporting it at the groins, defining its distinct surfaces, or dividing these surfaces into panels: including ogives and tiercerons. any of several molded members or moldings, including ridge ribs and liernes, and on the surface of a vault accenting the ridges or dividing the surface into panels.
8. something resembling a rib in form, position, or use, as a supporting or strengthening part.
9. a structural member that supports the shape of something:
10. Nautical. any of the curved framing members in a ship's hull that rise upward and outward from the keel; frame.
11. a stiffening beam cast as part of a concrete slab.
12. a primary vein of a leaf.
13. a vertical ridge in cloth, especially in knitted fabrics.
14. a ridge, as in poplin or rep, caused by heavy yarn.
15. a wife (in humorous allusion to the creation of Eve. Gen. 2:21–22).
16. Ceramics. a scraper for smoothing clay being thrown on a potter's wheel.
17. a metal ridge running along the top of the barrel of a firearm to simplify aligning the sights.
18. a longitudinal strip of metal joining the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or strengthen with ribs.
2. to enclose as with ribs.
3. to mark with riblike ridges or markings.
4. to tease; make fun of.

Origin of ribbing

First recorded in 1555-65; rib¹ + -ing¹

Examples for ribbing

At this stage, too, the pathological 'ribbing' of the hoof is observable.

ribbing the body of the imitation with tinsel reproduces this effect accurately.

This effect is accurately reproduced by ribbing the body with silver tinsel.

Good to see that the brothers are not done with ribbing each other as publicly as possible.

I took a lot of ribbing from contractors in that vicinity once the word got round that I was building Stoddard's house for him.

While Pamela reverts to ribbing Louie, she's visibly shaken.

The great period of Roman pottery is marked by the ribbing on the outsides.

They generally stained their glass with, some coloring matter, and occasionally ornamented it with a ribbing.

The new form of government introduced by ribbing, Horn and others was nothing else than that of an aristocratic republic.

This ribbing broad and narrow alternately is carried down the leg.