gab

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

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 ]

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. 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 ]