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jib 1 Noun 1. Naut a triangular sail set in front of the foremast 2. the cut of someone's jib a person's manner or style [origin unknown] jib 2 Verb [jibbing, jibbed] Chiefly Brit 1. (of an animal) to stop short and refuse to go forwards: my animal jibbed three times 2. jib at to object to: he jibs at any suggestion that his side are the underdogs [origin unknown] jib 3 Noun the projecting arm of a crane [probably from gibbet]
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All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines. Pausing long enough to let go the jib halyards, and just as the Reindeer cleared and began to drift astern, I leaped aboard the junk with a line and made fast. She inquired of the gardener where his boy was, but he smiled, and said: 'He has just come home on his three- legged horse, and the others have been mocking him, and crying: "Here comes our hobblety jib back again |
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