gib

noun

1. a hooked prolongation that develops during the spawning season on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
2. Machinery.
   1. a thin, wedgelike strip of metal for controlling the area in which a moving part, as the table of a milling machine, slides.
   2. 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.

verb (used with object), gibbed, gib·bing.

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

noun

1. a cat, especially a male cat.
2. a castrated cat.

1. Gibraltar.

noun

1. a metal wedge, pad, or thrust bearing, esp a brass plate let into a steam engine crosshead

verb gibs, gibbing or gibbed

2. (tr) to fasten or supply with a gib

noun

1. a male cat, esp a castrated one

noun

1. an informal name for Gibraltar

familiar abbreviation of Gilbert. As a typical name for a cat, from c.1400.

n.

type of iron hook, 1560s, of unknown origin. As a piece of wood or metal to hold something else in place, from 1795.