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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

... they caught up their horses, which had been hobbled with the stirrup leathers, and started afresh. Both were more silent than ever, and the dog, with his nose to the ground, led them slowly along the rocky rib of the mountain, ever ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... overflow of the meaningless emotion that women stock so abundantly on the occasion of a wedding. She is an almost intensely feminine person, as can be seen at once by any one who understands women. In a goods box in the passage beyond I noted her nipper fast asleep, a mammoth beef-rib clasped to its fat chest. I debated putting this abuse to her once more but feared the moment was not propitious. She dried her eyes ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... morning paper, "that if I had nothing else to do for a living except practice law with Joe Calvin on the side and just be twenty-five years old three hundred days in the year, and no other chores except to help old man Sands rib up his waterworks deal, I would hold some such general views myself. But when I was twenty-five, young man, Bedelia and I were running a race with the meal ticket, and our notions as to the moral government ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... blizzards shot like gunblasts from out of the Arctic. Snow and wind were not what brought the deeper gloom and fear to Fort MacPherson. La mort rouge, smallpox,—the "red death,"—was galloping through the wilderness. Rumors were first verified by facts from the Dog Rib Indians. A quarter of them were down with the scourge of the Northland. From Hudson's Bay on the east to the Great Bear on the west, the fur posts were sending out their runners, and a hundred Paul Reveres of the forests were riding swiftly behind their dogs to spread ...

— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood

... cannula or sheath, which leaves the sharp point of the trocar free. (See Pl. III, figs. 5a and 5b.) In selecting the point for using the trocar a spot on the left side equally distant from the last rib, the hip bone, and the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae must be chosen. Here an incision about three-fourths of an inch long should be made with a knife through the skin, and then the sharp point of the trocar, being directed ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

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