GAB. A notch on the eccentric rod of a steam-engine for fitting a pin in
the gab-lever to break the connection with the slide-valves. (_See_
GABBE.)
GABARRE. Originally a river lighter; now a French store-ship.
GABART, OR GABBERT. A flat vessel with a long hatchway, used in canals
and rivers.
GABBE. An old but vulgar term for the mouth.--_Gift of the gab_, or
_glib-gabbet_, facility and recklessness of assertion.
GABBOK. A voracious dog-fish which infests the herring fisheries in St.
George's Channel.
GABELLE [Fr.] An excise tribute.
GABERDINE. An old name for a loose felt cloak or mantle.