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G-Suit
- - A suit worn by aviators and astronauts, designed to counteract the effects of high accelerations experienced in aerial maneuvers, in particular to avoid unconsciousness; called also anti-g suit. It exerts force on the abdomen and legs to prevent blackouts by counteracting the tendency of blood to accumulate below the heart, thus reducing the supply to the brain, when the forces due to acceleration are directed from head to toe.
Gabbed
- verb - talk profusely; "she was yakking away about her grandchildren"
Gabble
- noun - rapid and indistinct speech
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Gabbro
- noun - one of a family of granular intrusive rocks
Gabert
- - A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
Gabion
- - A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
Gabled
- adjective - (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall; "a gabled roof"
Gables
- noun - the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
- United States film actor (1901-1960)
Gablet
- - A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.