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Rib   /rɪb/   Listen
Rib

noun
1.
Support resembling the rib of an animal.
2.
Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates).  Synonym: costa.
3.
Cut of meat including one or more ribs.
4.
A teasing remark.
5.
A riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant.
6.
A projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural.
verb
(past & past part. ribbed; pres. part. ribbing)
1.
Form vertical ribs by knitting.
2.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"



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standing rib roast
true rib


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"Rib" Quotes from Famous Books



... head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop. In the confusion some struck at their own side. The corkscrew of Smee got Tootles in the fourth rib, but he was himself pinked in turn by Curly. Farther from the rock Starkey was pressing Slightly and the ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... again took up the rib-thudding. Out of the corner of his left eye he had seen a shadow that fell across the garden. When he slowly turned his head to follow the stain upon the sun-splashed soil, he saw that it clung to a ...
— They Twinkled Like Jewels • Philip Jose Farmer
... shoulder pieces, the bloody neck and the spare-rib as bare as you can, then cut the middle pieces as large as they can lie in the tub, salt them with saltpetre, bay-salt, and white salt; your saltpetre must be beat small, and mix'd with the other salts; half a peck of white salt, a quart of bay-salt, and half a pound of saltpetre, ...
— English Housewifery Exemplified - In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions - for most Parts of Cookery • Elizabeth Moxon
... sublime thought, nor any production which surpasses the ordinary capacities of the human mind. On the contrary, we shall see on one side fabulous tales similar to that of a woman formed of a man's rib; of the pretended terrestrial Paradise; of a serpent which spoke, which reasoned, and which was more cunning than man; of an ass which spoke, and reprimanded its master for ill-treating it; of a universal deluge, and of an ark where animals of all kinds were inclosed; ...
— Superstition In All Ages (1732) - Common Sense • Jean Meslier
... the knotty joints of the vine in the light branch which rises highest. Yet only half the finish of the work can be seen in the Plate: for, in several cases, the sculptor has shown the under sides of the leaves turned boldly to the light, and has literally carved every rib and vein upon them, in relief; not merely the main ribs which sustain the lobes of the leaf, and actually project in nature, but the irregular and sinuous veins which chequer the membranous tissues between them, and which the sculptor has represented ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin


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