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bib n Cp O Sup2 bib-cock 'tap with turned-down nozzle'
(1797-), NID ~ 2 3 a for sense 1.
1 The
spout of a kettle or teapot.
1928 BURKE [6] "The Scramble for the
Teapots at the Fire": There was large size, small size, / And little ones for girls and
boys; / Some with fancy face and eyes, / (The kind we all require); / Long bibs, short
bibs; / Some for washing down spare-ribs. T 50/1-64 [They'd] cook their fish and boil
their kettle—pipers, they call them—little flat-arsed tin kettles with a bib on
them.
2 The peak of a cloth cap.
C
69-16 Many of the boys wore caps with a bib on them. Whenever the fishermen saw the boys
put their caps on backwards they would say we [would] have the wind northern tomorrow.
3 Attrib, comb bib cap: flat cap with projecting brim
at the front (P 83-77).
bib stage-light: oil lamp with wick
placed in spout, hung in fishing stage; STAGE LAMP.
P 102-60 Two
bib stage-lights using kerosene and lamp wicks and a few torch lights, piggins and
spudgels.
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