† ˈgibbert Obs.
Also 7 gibbartas, gibbarta, 7–9 gibbar; and see jubartes.
[ad. F. gibbar in the same sense.]
A kind of whale, a finner.
| 1602 R. Dolman tr. Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. (1618) iii. lxiii. 782 And in this number is the whale, of which the ancients write, and whome some moderns call Gibbar (because that the common whale, which some take for the Musculus of Aristotle, doth not answere to the description of this), which is of incredible hugenes. 1620 J. Mason New-found-land (Bannatyne Club 1867) B, What should I speake of a kinde of Whales called Gibberts? 1658 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxvi. (ed. 3) 214 Mariners..called it a Jubartas, or rather Gibbartas. The name Gibbarta we find also given unto one kind of Greenland Whales. 1843 Zoologist I. 34 It..is well known among fishermen and mariners generally by the names of finner..and gibbar. |