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Definition of Gribbles
1. gribble [n] - See also: gribble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gribbles
Literary usage of Gribbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"Alfred was thinking of the fate of the well-meaning gribbles, with their pretty,
but badly-brought-up, daughter—a family which, in his desponding moments, ..."
2. Memories of the Months: Being Pages from the Notebook of a Field-naturalist by Herbert Maxwell (1897)
"Now, however, gribbles are better educated. gribbles creep between the protecting
wires and devour hundreds of miles of guttapercha, leaving the copper ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"I think this word is applied to any seedling tree or shrub, and is not confined
to an apple-tree. The young plants sold by seedsmen are called gribbles. 2. ..."
4. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"These gribbles attack and destroy much floating and water-logged timber that
might otherwise become serious obstructions to navigation. ..."
5. Constitution of the State of North-Carolina: Together with the Ordinances by North Carolina (1868)
"AN ORDINANCE TO DIVORCE WINNEY gribbles AND ... divoro in Convention assembled,
That the nuptial tie between Winney gribbles and James ..."
6. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"Mrs. WG Jones (announced as Mrs. Cooke) made her first appearance here in two
years July 9, as Fanny gribbles in " An Object of Interest," and between the ..."
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