gabs

Noun

gab (countable and uncountable, plural gabs)

1. Idle chatter.
   • Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States, during the 1890s with dialogue written to reflect the time period
2. The mouth or gob.
3. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
   • Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.1940 July, S. Richards, “Locomotive Valve gear Development”, in Railway Magazine, page 412

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