Definition of "kibble" []

• An iron bucket used in wells or mines for hoisting water, ore, or refuse to the surface. (noun)
• To crush or grind (grain, for example) coarsely. (verb-transitive)
• Meal ground by this process and used in the form of pellets especially for pet food. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It is to be put into an iron bucket called a kibble, which is like a huge gypsy-pot (big enough to hold two ordinary-sized people thinly clad), suspended by three chains."
• "This is mostly b.s. The dry cat food that I feed my cats is not "kibble" -- it does not contain mostly carbohydrates."
• "Fido's food may be making kids sick; CDC calls kibble an under-recognized salmonella source"