noun. A plain or notched, often wedge-shaped piece of wood or metal designed to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface, usually adjusted by a screw or key.

transitive verb. To fasten with a gib.

noun. A male cat, especially a castrated one.

noun. A familiar name for a cat; hence, as a generic name, any cat, especially an old cat: commonly used for the male.

To behave like a cat.

To castrate, as a cat.

To eviscerate or disembowel, as a fish. Also gip.

noun. A hooked stick.

noun. A wooden support for the roof of a coal-mine.

noun. A piece of iron used to clasp together the pieces of wood or iron of a framing which is to be keyed.

noun. In steam-mach., a fixed wedge used with the driving-wedge or key to tighten the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting-rod.

noun. The projecting arm of a crane; a gibbet. Also jib.

noun. The wedge or adjusting-shoe by which wear is taken up at a sliding contact, such as a cross-head moving on guides.

noun. A prism.

noun. The hooked mandible of the male salmon or trout which is formed during the breeding-season.

noun. A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

noun. the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.

noun. undefined

transitive verb. To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

transitive verb. an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.

noun. A male cat; a tomcat.

intransitive verb. To balk. See jib, v. i.

intransitive verb. To act like a cat.

noun. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.

noun. A castrated male cat or ferret.

verb. To fasten in place with a gib.

noun. Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

verb. To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

noun. a castrated tomcat

noun. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

"- Tapered driving keys the thicker ends of which feature a nose are called gib-head keys."