What is "ribbed"

Usage examples of "ribbed".

The group at the back of the bus must have recognized that they had ribbed Bleer too much, for they dropped further comments concerning Oxotone.

There I behelde a marueilous buildyng of a bathe eight square, and at euerye Exterior corner, there were doubled together twoo Pyles, in fashion of a Pyke, from the leuell of the foundation, the subiect Areobates Circumcinct and ribbed about.

One long table extended itself down the ample hall of Ellieslaw Castle, which was still left much in the state in which it had been one hundred years before, stretching, that is, in gloomy length, along the whole side of the castle, vaulted with ribbed arches of freestone, the groins of which sprung from projecting figures, that, carved into all the wild forms which the fantastic imagination of a Gothic architect could devise, grinned, frowned, and gnashed their tusks at the assembly below.

These are extremely various in character and form, being globose, cylindrical, columnar or flattened into leafy expansions or thick joint-like divisions, the surface being either ribbed like a melon, or developed into nipple-like protuberances, or variously angular, but in the greater number of the species furnished copiously with tufts of horny spines, some of which are exceedingly keen and powerful.

Machinery, ribbed tubes, and plastic cables formed an untidy glyptic over most bulkheads.

Brown gave her an armful of thin, puce silk to hold, then rummaged through the pile and found a gown in green, heavily ribbed material with a quilted petticoat in ivory.

The others laughed and ribbed their uncle, and as they left to meet Queen Ravyn, Alandra turned to see a shimmer of magic on the air, and a pair of ghostly blue eyes winking out of sight.

Bettina finally stopped by the long, ribbed remains of a saguaro that had toppled over many years ago.

And this mystic region sloped and slanted to a great amphitheater that was walled on the opposite side by a mountain of bare earth of every hue, and of a thousand ribbed and scalloped surfaces.

They fold down the covers and the ribbed spreads, and they air out their beds the way Mamo has taught them.

His arms were ribbed with the swazond, ritual trophy scars, of more than two hundred dead foes.

This whiteness was shot, at the hour of sunset, with streaks of sulphur yellow and dappled with small, ribbed clouds tinged with yellow-green, a bitter and cruel shade of green that distressed the eyes as a merciless light distresses them, but these colours quickly faded, and again the whiteness prevailed for a brief space of time before the heavy falling of a darkness unpierced by stars.

Beyond and above, the volcano rose massively, like the ribbed trunk of a giant mangrove, in great parallel ridges, each with its own name: Serra Adorno, Roisa, Le Mandre, Rina Grande.

Not only was I ribbed over it, we had to consider if it was just a snoopy cameraperson, or if there had been spying.

Though these came in all sizes, they were all essentially of the same design: a fat cylinder of some transparent cladding, ribbed with metal, provided on both sides with caterpillar treads bearing cleats so large that they could also serve as paddles where the going underfoot became especially sloppy.