frib

English

Noun

frib (plural fribs)

1. A piece of inferior wool from the outer part of the fleece.
   • 1809, A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine, John Lawrence, page 385:

     The wool, producing nearly five-sixths of prime, and only one-fourteenth of fribs, is a proof that it had suffered no degeneration […]

Derived terms

• fribby

Old Irish

Pronoun

frib

1. second-person plural of fri