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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

A West African antelope (

Tragelaphus scriptus

), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called

harnessed antelope

; – called also

guiba.

guib ‎(plural guibs)

A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground; the harnessed antelope.
- 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
  The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

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