gib

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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.
2. v. To fasten with a gib.
3. n. A male cat, especially a castrated one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A hooked stick.
2. n. A wooden support for the roof of a coal-mine.
3. n. A piece of iron used to clasp together the pieces of wood or iron of a framing which is to be keyed.
4. n. 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.
5. n. The projecting arm of a crane; a gibbet. Also jib.
6. n. A familiar name for a cat; hence, as a generic name, any cat, especially an old cat: commonly used for the male.
7. To behave like a cat.
8. To castrate, as a cat.
9. To eviscerate or disembowel, as a fish. Also gip.
10. n. The wedge or adjusting-shoe by which wear is taken up at a sliding contact, such as a cross-head moving on guides.
11. n. A prism.
12. n. The hooked mandible of the male salmon or trout which is formed during the breeding-season.

Wiktionary

1. n. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
2. n. A castrated male cat or ferret.
3. v. To fasten in place with a gib.
4. n. video games Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
5. v. video games To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A male cat; a tomcat.
2. v. obsolete To act like a cat.
3. n. 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.
4. v. To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
5. v. To balk. See jib, v. i.

WordNet 3.0

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