Sc. Obs. [app. var. of GERBE; a. F. gerbe, OF. jarbe sheaf.] Apparently ‘a knot in form of a sheaf’ (Jam.).
1578. Inv. R. Wardr. (1815), 264. A belt of knottis of perll and reid curall and jarbes of gold contening xliii knottis of perll. Ibid. (1579), 288. Ane belt of knottis of perll amatistes and jarbis of gold betuix.
