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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.

Related terms
кливер

Shift from one side of the ship to the other.

Item film equipment.

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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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Less common