bibb Naut.
(bɪb)
Also 8 bib.
[variant of bib n.1]
A bracket under the trestle-tree of a mast, resembling in position a child's bib.
| 1779–80 Cook Voy. (1785) II. 271 The foremast..to be unrigged, in order to fix a new bib. 1867 in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |