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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.
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