ˈribspare Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 -sparre.
[So MLG. ribbesper, LG. ribbspeer, G. rippspeer.]
= sparerib.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. iv. 91 The remainder of the Dons morning draught, and drench for his rib-sparre or split (choose you which). 1736 Pegge Kenticisms s.v. Fore-right, So, in Kent, to wrong-take a person is to take him wrong,..and a ribspare is a spare rib. 1887 Parish & Shaw Kentish Gloss., Ribspare, the spare rib. |