RIB'IN, noun 1. A filet of silk; a narrow web of silk used for an ornament, as a badge, or for fastening some part of female dress. 2. In naval architecture, a long narrow flexible piece of timber, nailed upon the outside of the ribs from the stem to the sternpost, so as to encompass the ship lengthwise; the principal are the floor-ribin and the breadth-ribin. RIB'IN, verb transitive To adorn with ribins.
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