n. [ Cf. Gaff. ] (Steam Engine) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gabbe gabble, mocking, fr. Icel. gabb mocking, mockery, or OF. gab, gabe; perh. akin to E. gape, or gob. Cf. Gab, v. i., Gibber. ] The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gift of gab, facility of expression. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. gabben to jest, lie, mock, deceive, fr. Icel. gabba to mock, or OF. gaber. See 2d Gab, and cf. Gabble. ] 1. To deceive; to lie. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [ Obs. ]

n. 1. A liar; a deceiver. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One addicted to idle talk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gabbled p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling ] [ Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i. ] 1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
Among the builders. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gabbles; a prater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ] (Geol.) 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gabelle, LL. gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Cf.Gavel tribute. ] (O. Eng. Law) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]