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Definition of Ribbands
1. ribband [n] - See also: ribband
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbands
Literary usage of Ribbands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"ribbands knew of his being there the night after he came, ... The waiter who sent
for the pauper continued in the service of ribbands till about July in the ..."
2. Naval Architecture: A Manual on Laying-off Iron, Steel and Composite Vessels by Thomas Henry Watson (1898)
"For erecting purposes, to keep the frames in their relative positions until the
inside strakes of the shell-plating are in place and secured, ribbands and ..."
3. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"TTEM, whereas by a piteous complaint made in the fame No ribbands, J_ parliament by
... girdles, ribbands, forfeiture of the fame, or of the value thereof, ..."
4. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1908)
"The ribbands not only hold the frames at fixed distance, but impart, ...
ribbands are usually of pine, 40 or 50 feet long, and from 4 to 6 inches square, ..."
5. Palgrave's The Golden Treasury edited by Walter Barnes (1915)
"But silly we, like foolish children, rest Well pleased with colour'd vellum,
leaves of gold, Fair dangling ribbands, leaving what is best, ..."
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