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Definition of Ribbed

1. Adjective. Furnished or strengthened with ribs.

Definition of Ribbed

1. a. Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

Definition of Ribbed

1. Adjective. Having ribs. ¹

2. Adjective. (mining) intercalated with slate; said of a seam of coal ¹

3. Verb. (past of rib) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ribbed

1. rib [v] - See also: rib

Medical Definition of Ribbed

1. 1. Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth. 2. Intercalated with slate; said of a seam of coal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbed

Literary usage of Ribbed

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

1. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"It is large, roundish, slightly conical, obscurely ribbed, very fair and smooth, with brilliant red streaks on a bright yellow; stem half an inch long, ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"This Wayside Plantain. the white man haa set his foot." 2. P. lanceolata, Linn. Mostly hairy : leaves lanceolate or elongated-oblong. 3-5-ribbed : scape ..."

3. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"ribbed or corrugated glass is usually smooth on one side and has 5,7, ... "Factory ribbed" glass with 21 ribs to the inch is distinctly the most effective. ..."

4. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"ribbed or corrugated glass is usually smooth on one side and has 5, 7, ... "Factory ribbed" glass with 21 ribs to the inch is distinctly the most effective. ..."

5. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"THE ribbed COCOON-MAKER OF THE APPLE ... Cocoons of the ribbed cocoon-maker. Fio. 61. — ribbed cocoon-maker moth (X 8). ..."

6. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"ribbed HALF DOMES A peculiar and unexpected development of the rib vault was the ... Finally, a ribbed half dome was constructed at Borgo S. Donnino in 1280 ..."

7. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Elliott (2) describes the fruit as " medium to large, roundish conical. flattened at base, tapering toward the eye, sometimes angular, always much ribbed or ..."

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