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発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɜː(ɹ)b/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)b

名詞

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

参照

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Gerbe”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe