Kibble

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bruise or grind coarsely, as malt, beans, etc.
  • To clip roughly, as a stone.
  • To walk lame.
  • noun. The bucket of a draw-well, or of the shaft of a mine. [Prov. Eng.]
  • noun. A stick with a curve or knob at the end, used in playing the game of nurspell.
  • To hoist ore or refuse in a mine-bucket or kibble.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
  • transitive verb. To bruise; to grind coarsely.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to grind something coarsely
  • noun. something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed
  • noun. an iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
  • noun. coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
  • Word Usage
    "It is to be put into an iron bucket called a kibble, which is like a huge gypsy-pot (big enough to hold two ordinary-sized people thinly clad), suspended by three chains."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bucket  meal  pail  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sibyl  dibble  dribble  gribble  nibble  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bruise  
    variant
    kibbal  
    verb-form