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Gribble
Grib′ble
,
Noun.
[Cf. Prov. E. grib to bite.]
(Zool.)
A small marine isopod crustacean (
Limnoria lignorum
or
Limnoria terebrans
), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
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