To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
Having ribs.
Intercalated with slate; said of a seam of coal.