Naut. Also 8 bib. [variant of BIB sb.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., 98.
