(anatomy) A part of the skeleton within the thoracic area consisting of ribs, sternum and thoracic vertebrae. / The enclosed area created by and within the ribs.

Alternative spelling of ribcage

plural of rib-cage (alternative spelling of ribcages).

A section of a cow from which meat is butchered. / A cut of meat from that section.

plural of beef rib

(informal) a humorous joke.

A cut of beef from the rib and plate primals and a small corner of the square-cut chuck.

(architecture) In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

plural of lierne rib

A cut of beef from the primal rib, one of the eight primal cuts of beef.