plural of ribbed vault

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.

(herpetology) plural of abdominal rib

(herpetology) Any of the riblike structures that cross the abdomen in lizards.