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The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.

A liar; a deceiver. [Obs.]

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

One who gabbles; a prater.

sting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

ribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. Burrill. He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Jer. Taylor.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

See Gabardine.

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Furnished with gabions.

See Gabionade.

A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. Bell gable. See under Bell. -- Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end. -- Gable wall. Same as Gable (b). -- Gable window, a window in a gable.