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kib·ble1    Audio Help   [kib-uhl] Pronunciation Key verb, -bled, -bling, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to grind or divide into particles or pellets, as coarse-ground meal or prepared dry dog food.
–noun
2.grains or pellets resulting from a kibbling process.
[Origin: 1780–90; orig. uncert.]
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kib·ble2    Audio Help   [kib-uhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun British.
an iron bucket used in mines for hoisting ore.
[Origin: 1665–75; < G Kübel pail, vat]
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kib·ble 1    Audio Help   (kĭb'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   An iron bucket used in wells or mines for hoisting water, ore, or refuse to the surface.


[Probably from German Kübel, pail, from Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī, milk pail), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa, vat.]

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kib·ble 2    Audio Help   (kĭb'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   kib·bled, kib·bling, kib·bles
To crush or grind (grain, for example) coarsely.

n.   Meal ground by this process and used in the form of pellets especially for pet food.


[Origin unknown.]

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kibble

noun
1. coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) 
2. an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining 

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Kibble

Kib"ble\, v. t. To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats. [Prov.Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Kibble

Kib"ble\, n. A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also kibbal.]
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