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Webster 1913 Edition
Ribbing
Rib′bing
,Noun.
An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.
Definition 2024
ribbing
ribbing
English
Verb
ribbing
- present participle of rib
Noun
ribbing (countable and uncountable, plural ribbings)
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to rib.
- (countable, uncountable) A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
- 1919, MacIver Percival, The Glass Collector: A Guide to Old English Glass (page 31)
- The decoration found on the stems are perpendicular ribbings, ordinary rounded mouldings, and perpendicular lobings.
- 1919, MacIver Percival, The Glass Collector: A Guide to Old English Glass (page 31)
- (countable) An instance of teasing.