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Jibe   /dʒaɪb/   Listen
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Gybe  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. gybed; pres. part. gybing)  (Also jibe)  (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.


Jibe  v. t.  (past & past part. jibed; pres. part. jibing)  (Naut.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.


Jibe  v. i.  
1.
(Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
2.
To agree; to harmonize. (Colloq.)





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"Jibe" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am always glad when we get that buoy; it is the hardest to find of any of them. We shall have to jibe going round it. You stand by to brail the sail up when I give the word; we might carry away the gaff at the jaws if we let the sail go over all standing now." As soon as they neared the buoy Tom Hoskins got in the oar with which the mainsail was boomed out. "Now, Jack, brail up ...
— A Chapter of Adventures • G. A. Henty
... this jibe in the barracks, and the officers redoubled their vigilance, but the Indians still got their whisky, and new horses appeared from ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... big jest in our set. You know, Olga Jones and her husband don't get along very well together. Their temperaments don't jibe. ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... Jerry Webster looked at Don Scott, the object of Rick's jibe, and waited for his reply. Verbal warfare between the two boys was a usual feature of the evening discussions on the big front porch of the ...
— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine
... shooting. So that was smoothed over, and we gave our beaters ale to wash down their anger. They were excusable! We—they had sweated to show our guests good sport, and our reward was a flight of hunting-arrows which no man loves, and worse, a churl's jibe over hard-fought, fair-lost Hastings fight. So, before the next beat, Hugh and I assembled and called the beaters over by name, to steady them. The greater part we knew, but among the Netherfield men I saw an old, old man, in ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling


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