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Definition of Tribbles
1. tribble [n] - See also: tribble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribbles
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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