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bibb (bib)

noun

  1. a bibcock
  2. a wooden bracket fastened to a ship's mast to support the trestletrees

Etymology: < bib, : so named because in position it resembles a child's bib

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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