gerbe

Late 16th century, borrowed from French gerbe (“sheaf”). Doublet of garb.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɜː(ɹ)b/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b

gerbe (plural gerbes)

1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (mathematics) An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf.
4. (pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.
   • 1835, Frederick Bruhl, The Complete Art of Making Fireworks:

     on the top of the post fix a gerbe; then clothe all the cases with leaders , so that both they and the gerbe may take fire at the same time

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁb/

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From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French jarbe, garbe, borrowed from Frankish *garbā (“sheaf”).

gerbe f (plural gerbes)

1. (agriculture) sheaf (of wheat)
2. spray, bouquet (of flowers)
3. collection, anthology (of pieces of literature)
4. (heraldry) garb
5. (historical) tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime

• → English: gerbe

Deverbal from gerber.

gerbe f (uncountable)

1. (slang) puke, throw up (vomit)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gerbe

1. inflection of gerber:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “gerbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• berge

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gerbe

1. inflection of gerben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative