dag vs rib

dag

noun
  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

rib

noun
  • A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth. 

  • A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones. 

  • A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault 

  • A teasing joke. 

  • A stalk of celery. 

  • A single strand of hair. 

  • Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength. 

  • The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf. 

  • Watercress (Nasturtium officinale). 

  • A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. 

  • Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull. 

  • Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. 

  • Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). 

  • Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita). 

verb
  • To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. 

  • To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land). 

  • To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. 

  • To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. 

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