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▪ I. ˈgribble1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 greble, 7 grible.
[? related to grab, current form in s.w. dial. of crab n.2 (cf. grab-tree in quot. 1578).]
a. A crab-tree or black-thorn; a stick made from either of these; also attrib.
b. The stock of a crab (or other tree?) for grafting upon.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. xxx. 696 Roundish leaues, som⁓what like the leaues of a gribble, grabbe tree, or wilding. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Gancho, a sheeps crooke, knops in a greble staffe, braunches in a stags horne. c1640J. Smyth Hundred of Berkeley (1885) III. 25 A grible, i.e. A crabstocke to graft vpon. 1825Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 41 Gribble, a young apple-tree raised from seed. 1847–78Halliwell, Gribble, a shoot from a tree; a short cutting from one. West. 1863W. Barnes Dorset Gloss., Gribble (diminutive of grab), a young crab-tree or black-thorn; or a knotty walking stick made of it. 1880E. Cornwall Gloss., Gribble, the young stock of a tree on which a graft is to be inserted.
▪ II. gribble2|ˈgrɪb(ə)l|
[Of obscure origin: ? cognate with grub v.]
A small marine boring crustacean, Limnoria terebrans, resembling a wood-louse.
1838E. Moore in Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 207 Our harbour [Plymouth] is exposed to the attacks of a much more formidable enemy, the Limnoria terebrans, or gribble. 1884Stand. Nat. Hist. II. 71 Many plans have been proposed for preventing the ravages of the gribble. 1895Daily News 14 June 5/3 To protect the gutta percha insulation from the attack of a minute marine organism known as the ‘gribble’. |