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gribble |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gribble \Grib"ble\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. grib to bite.] (Zo["o]l.) A small marine isopod crustacean ({Limnoria lignorum} or {L. terebrans}), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America. From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: gribble n. Random binary data rendered as unreadable text. Noise characters in a data stream are displayed as gribble. Modems with mismatched bitrates usually generate gribble (more specifically, {baud barf}). Dumping a binary file to the screen is an excellent source of gribble, and (if the bell/speaker is active) headaches.
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