gab
/ɡæb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
Example Sentences
- "Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!"
- "Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle."
- "He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades”"
- ""That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab.""