a metal wedge, pad, or thrust bearing, esp a brass plate let into a steam engine crosshead
verbWord forms: gibs, gibbing or gibbed
2. (transitive)
to fasten or supply with a gib
Word origin
C18: of unknown origin
gibbed in American English
(ɡɪbd)
adjective
Veterinary Science(of a cat)
castrated
Word origin
[1625–35; gib2 + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1625–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: concentration, deviate, interlock, program, query-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, connected, sheltered, truncated, unattended