G. .B. The initials for Grand Cross of the most honourable and Military Order of the Bath. 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. GABERT. A Scotch lighter. (_See_ GABART.) GABIONADE. A parapet of gabions hastily thrown up.
The Sailor's Word Book by William Henry Smyth edited by Edward Belcher, published originally in 1867 by Blackie & Son
