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gerbe|dʒɜːb|
Also 9 gerb, jerb.
[a. F. gerbe (in the same senses): see garbe n.1]
†1. A wheat-sheaf. (Cf. garb n.1 1.) Obs.—1
1808J. Barlow Columb. vii. 749 As when the toiling swains Heap their whole harvest on the stubbly plains, Gerb after gerb the bearded shock expands.
2. Something resembling a sheaf of wheat.
†a. A combination of jets in an ornamental fountain (obs.).
b. A kind of firework (see quots.).
1698M. Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 208 Here are some Gerbes of a singular fashion, with a Circle of a great number of large Pipes. 1765R. Jones Fireworks iii. 101 The cases for gerbes are made very strong, on account of the strength of the composition. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iii. 332 Exhibitions..consisting chiefly in fire-trees, jerbs, and rockets. 1833Philos. in Sport xix. 401 Gerbes, a species of firework, which throws up a luminous and sparkling jet of fire. 1886O. Masson in Encycl. Brit. XX. 136/1 Gerbes are choked cases, not unlike Roman candles, but often of much larger size. Their fire spreads like a sheaf of wheat.
transf.1802T. Beddoes Hygeia vi. 53 When once kindled, it [the fire of malignant fever] may justly be regarded as rising in a gerbe. 1862G. P. Scrope Volcanos 33 By a sudden vehement boiling up, it [the lava] almost reaches the upper rim, and then discharges a gerb of red-hot stones. 1869tr. Renan's Apostles iv. 82 The atmosphere is furrowed as it were..with gerbes of flame. |