Definitions for jibs

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Spelling: [jib]

IPA: /dʒɪb/

Jibs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in jibs (bijs).

Definitions for jibs

noun

1. any of various triangular sails set forward of a forestaysail or fore-topmast staysail. Compare flying jib, inner jib.
2. the inner one of two such sails, set inward from a flying jib.
3. a horse or other animal that jibs.
4. the projecting arm of a crane.
5. the boom of a derrick.
6. the act of jibing.

Idioms

1. cut of one's jib, one's general appearance, mien, or manner:

adjective

1. of or relating to a jib:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to jibe.

verb (used without object)

1. to move restively sidewise or backward instead of forward, as an animal in harness; balk.
2. to balk at doing something; defer action; procrastinate.
3. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
4. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.

verb (used with or without object)

1. jibe1 .

Origin of jibs

First recorded in 1655-65; origin uncertain

Examples for jibs

The White Wings was a sloop yacht with club and jib topsails.

Then the Polly was turned toward the shore and the jib was lowered.

If we can h'ist the jib we can get some steerage way on her, maybe.

For instance, there is the jib halyard and the foresail halyard.

Keep the topsails loose and the jib ready for setting, I may want the sails in a hurry.

"Then you will excuse me if I go home," I added, as I hoisted the jib.

"All the same, I don't like the cut of his jib," murmured Bailey.

At the end of that mile Jonadab's craft's jib boom was just astern of Tobias's rudder.

I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib.

The jib was not furled, but got ready to "let go" in case of fierce gusts.