ribibet

[Also ribible; The ribibe is said to have had three strings, to have been played with a bow, and to have been introduced into Spain by the Moors. Skeat , Piers Plowman, II. 426. 2. A shrill-voiced old woman. This sompnour, ever waityng on his pray, Rod forth to sompne a widew, an old ribibe , Fynyng a cause, for he wolde bribe. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 79. IMG:content-2248.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2249.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2250.jpg:[blocks in formation]