Drib vs Rib - What's the difference?
drib | rib |
To cut off; chop off.
To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
To entice step by step.
* Dryden
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
* Dryden
(archery) To shoot directly at short range.
(archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
(archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
To beat; thrash; drub.
To scold.
To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
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
A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones
(label) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull
Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength
(label) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
(label) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth
(label) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf
A teasing joke
A single strand of hair.
A stalk of celery.
To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs
To tease or make fun of someone
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
* Shakespeare
(label) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
As nouns the difference between drib and rib
is that drib is a drop while rib is (acronym) rigid inflatable boat — a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull.As a verb drib
is to cut off; chop off.drib
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(dribb)- With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
- He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
- (Sir Philip Sidney)