gibbier
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gibbier
- (obsolete) wildfowl; game
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- The fowl and gibbier are tax-free.
- 1787, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States:
- The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton
References
[edit]- “gibbier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.