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gerbe

/ʒɛʁb/

noun, feminine/ʒɛʁb/plural: gerbes

sheaf (of wheat); spray, bouquet (of flowers); collection, anthology (of pieces of literature); garb; tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French jarbe, garbe, borrowed from Frankish *garbā (“sheaf”).

noun, feminine/ʒɛʁb/

puke, throw up (vomit)

Deverbal from gerber.