Definitions for gybe

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Spelling: [jahyb]

IPA: /dʒaɪb/

Gybe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in gybe (begy).

Definitions for gybe

noun

1. the act of jibing.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to jibe.

verb (used without object)

1. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
2. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.

verb (used with or without object)

1. jibe1 .

Origin of gybe

1685-95; variant of gybe Dutch gijben, more commonly gijpen

Examples for gybe

The Phantom had to come about, and get on the right tack, for Guilford was too careful to gybe in that wind.

So they ran before it largely till the bows were pressed right under, and it was no human poser that saved the gybe.

gybe, or Jibe, to; to shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail.