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Meanings of jib in English

Catalan
refusar
Spanish
negarse

Refuse to comply.

        refusar
        Russian
        кливер
        Spanish
        foque
        Catalan
        floc

        A triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast.

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                кливер

                Shift from one side of the ship to the other.

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                            Usage of jib in English
                            1
                            The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind.
                            A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
                            2
                            The flying-jib is to be set to assist in steadying the motion.
                            The Illustrated London Reading Book
                            3
                            At length, however, they heard the order to take in the jib.
                            The Rival Crusoes
                            4
                            We contrived to ship the mast, and set the jib and foresail.
                            Percival Keene
                            5
                            Sure you kin see that easy from the cut of her jib.
                            Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats
                            6
                            I cast off the port jib sheet and trimmed the starboard one.
                            The sailcloth shroud
                            7
                            We had stepped two masts and fitted two lugs and a jib.
                            Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor
                            8
                            She was still on the port tack under unreefed mainsail and jib.
                            Gulf coast girl: original title, scorpion reef
                            9
                            The ship was under her three top-sails, spanker and jib, when Mons.
                            Miles Wallingford / Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
                            10
                            Stand by to run up your jib and fore-topmast staysail, Mr. Broadrick.
                            Java Head
                            11
                            You looks like it, Miles, judgin' by the colour o' your jib.
                            Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
                            12
                            The schooner, at this time, was under her mainsail, jib, and fore-top-sail.
                            Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
                            13
                            I fancy Evelyn Waugh might have liked the cut of Colman's jib.
                            The Guardian
                            14
                            All their noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many jib-booms.
                            Moby Dick
                            15
                            Afterward, McCain told Black that he liked the cut of Palin's jib.
                            Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
                            16
                            I took in the jib, and he moored the boat near the lake.
                            Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
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                            Jib through the time
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                            United Kingdom
                            Common
                            United States of America
                            Less common