n.
The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
v. i.
The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.
v. i.
To deceive; to lie.
v. i.
To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.
n.
A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.
n.
A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
n.
One addicted to idle talk.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gabble
v. i.
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
v. i.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.
n.
Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
n.
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
n.
One who gabbles; a prater.
n.
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
n.
A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
n.
A collector of gabels or taxes.
n.
A tax, especially on salt.
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