gribble

noun

grib·​ble ˈgri-bəl 

: either of two small wood-boring marine isopods (Limnoria lignorum and L. tripunctata)

Examples of gribble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The two most common borers are a kind of shipworm called Teredo navalis, which is actually a wormlike clam, and tiny crustaceans known as gribbles. — New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019

So, discovering how gribbles break through lignin would be an important step to figuring out how humans can use it, and scientists from the Universities of York, Portsmouth, Cambridge, and São Paulo figured it out. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018

Word History

Etymology

perhaps alteration of grub entry 2

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gribble

• dibble
• dribble
• kibble
• nibble
• quibble
• scribble
• sibyl
• sybil