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Rib   /rɪb/   Listen
Rib

noun
1.
Support resembling the rib of an animal.
2.
Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates).  Synonym: costa.
3.
Cut of meat including one or more ribs.
4.
A teasing remark.
5.
A riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant.
6.
A projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural.
verb
(past & past part. ribbed; pres. part. ribbing)
1.
Form vertical ribs by knitting.
2.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"



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"Rib" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than 100 years old when he lost a rib and gained a wife. Genesis does not say so in exact words, but I can make nothing else of the argument. Our first parents received special instructions to "be fruitful and multiply." They were given distinctly to understand that was what they were here for. They were brimming with health and ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... out of his beautiful furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him. His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red ...
— The Call of the Wild • Jack London
... and the Master were too far away to catch her in time to prevent a fall which might well have entailed a broken rib or a wrenched shoulder. But Lad was nearer. Also, he ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... upon his horse all armed, his shield on his neck and grasping his spear in his fist. And he cometh toward Messire Gawain full career and Messire Gawain toward him, and smiteth him so wrathfully that he pierceth his shield and pinneth his shield to his arm and his arm to his rib and thrusteth his spear into his body, and hurtleth against him so sore that he beareth him to the ground, him and his horse together at the ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown
... the growth. And when he eats dinner that day, with the grave Doctor carving the rib-roast and the prim aunt ladling out the sauces, he is elated with the vague, but not unpleasant consciousness, that he is beginning to be familiar with ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various


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