- a hooked prolongation that develops during the spawning season on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
- Machinery.
- a thin, wedgelike strip of metal for controlling the area in which a moving part, as the table of a milling machine, slides.
- a keylike part having a head at each end, used with a matching cotter as a fastening.
- (in carpentry or ironwork) a heavy metal strap for fastening two members together.
- to fasten (parts) together by means of a gib.
- a cat, especially a male cat.
- a castrated cat.
- Gibraltar.
- a metal wedge, pad, or thrust bearing, esp a brass plate let into a steam engine crosshead
- to fasten or supply with a gib
- a male cat, esp a castrated one
- an informal name for Gibraltar
