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3 words match “GIBRALTAR”

GIBRALTAR n. 2 definitions
A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.
BARBARY n.
] Also, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.
STRAIT n.
necting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. De Foe.