English

Verb

kibble ‎(third-person singular simple present kibbles, present participle kibbling, simple past and past participle kibbled)

1. To grind coarsely.

   kibbled oats

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Noun

kibble ‎(countable and uncountable, plural kibbles)

1. Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.

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Etymology 2

German Kübel ‎(“pail”), from Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī ‎(“milk pail”)), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.^[4]

Noun

kibble ‎(plural kibbles)

1. An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.

References

1. ↑ “kibble” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
2. ↑ A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, ..., Volume 2, by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, First Edition, 1847, p. 493
3. ↑ Century Dictionary, “kibble etymologies”, Wordnik
4. ↑ “kibble” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

• kibble in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911