rib

Definitions

1. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
2. Acronym of rigid inflatable boat (“a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull”).
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3. Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
4. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
   broadly
5. routing information base
   Internet
6. Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
7. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
8. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
9. Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
10. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
11. A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
12. A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
13. A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
14. The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
15. A teasing joke.
16. A single strand of hair.
    Ireland, colloquial
17. A stalk of celery.
18. A wife or woman.
    archaic, humorous, literary

Equivalents

Examples

“On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.”

“a broken rib on the umbrella”

“'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'”

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