Definition of Tribbles

1. Noun. (plural of tribble) ¹

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Definition of Tribbles

1. tribble [n] - See also: tribble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribbles

tribalized
tribalizes
tribalizing
tribally
tribals
tribar
tribasic
tribasic acid
tribasic calcium phosphate
tribasic magnesium phosphate
tribasic sodium phosphate
tribasilar
tribasilar synostosis
tribble
tribbles (current term)
tribe
tribe Bambuseae
tribe Bovini
tribe Bubalus
tribe synercus
tribelet
tribelets
tribelike
tribes
tribesman
tribesmen
tribespeople
tribespeoples
tribesperson

Literary usage of Tribbles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Guide for the Manufacture of Paper and Boards by Albert Prouteaux, Louis Sébastien Lenormand, Henry T. Brown (1866)
"These lifters, with handles varying in length with the height of the tribbles, are employed to avoid the necessity of mounting upon trestles. ..."

2. Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of by Thomas Curson Hansard (1825)
"The sheets are taken up upon a piece of wood like aT, and hung upon hair lines, stretched across large horizontal wooden frames, called tribbles; and then, ..."

3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The sheets are taken up upon a piece of wood like aT, and hung upon hair lines, stretched across large horizontal wooden frames, called tribbles ; and then, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... the gelatin solution and between a pair of rolls, and then slowly dried on rope linca or " tribbles " in a steam-heated and well-vcn lib ted loft. ..."

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