gibbier

English

Etymology

From French gibier.

Noun

gibbier

(obsolete) wildfowl; game
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  The fowl and gibbier are tax-free.
- 1787, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States:
  The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton

References

“gibbier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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