rib

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.

• On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.broadly

• a broken rib on the umbrella

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

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.

A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.

A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.

The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.

A teasing joke.

To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.

• He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

• It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).transitive

Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).

Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).

Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).

Acronym of rigid inflatable boat (“a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull”).abbreviationacronymalt-of

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