How to Spell rib

rib

rib - noun

  • Any of the paired curved bony or partly cartilaginous rods that stiffen the walls of the body of most vertebrates and protect the viscera
  • Wife
  • One of the stiff strips supporting an umbrella's fabric
  • One of the arches in Romanesque and Gothic vaulting meeting and crossing one another and dividing the whole vaulted space into triangles
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API

Etymology

Old English

Middle English, from Old English ribb; akin to Old High German rippi rib, Old Church Slavic rebro, and probably to Greek erephein to roof over

Word family

ribs, ribcage