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Meanings of jib in английском
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Examples for "jibe"
Examples for "jibe"
1
Ms Byrne also made a good-humoured jibe at her relieved family members.
2
Except that didn't jibe with what he'd seen of her so far.
3
Fuelled by that jibe, Arsenal took the lead in the eighth minute.
4
That should jibe with what the hospital receptionist had no doubt reported.
5
But the best of the lot at a jibe or a joke
1
But the thread is cut between us and we will never gybe again, no, never-worldswithout end.
2
Warkalla held of the 33 year old Irish sailor until the gybe mark, when Lyttle overtook him and established some working distance.
3
The variation, trifling as it was, brought the wind on the opposite quarter, and caused the boom that distended her mainsail to gybe.
4
So they ran before it largely till the bows were pressed right under, and it was no human poser that saved the gybe.
1
The official did not know what prompted Mr Trump to change course.
2
Raab, though, cautioned that he did not expect China to change course.
3
Attorney-General George Brandis earlier on Tuesday urged the Opposition to change course.
4
She said they had to change course so they could see totality.
5
I didn't see you until it was too late to change course.
Usage of jib in английском
1
The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind.
2
The flying-jib is to be set to assist in steadying the motion.
3
At length, however, they heard the order to take in the jib.
4
We contrived to ship the mast, and set the jib and foresail.
5
Sure you kin see that easy from the cut of her jib.
6
I cast off the port jib sheet and trimmed the starboard one.
7
We had stepped two masts and fitted two lugs and a jib.
8
She was still on the port tack under unreefed mainsail and jib.
9
The ship was under her three top-sails, spanker and jib, when Mons.
10
Stand by to run up your jib and fore-topmast staysail, Mr. Broadrick.
11
You looks like it, Miles, judgin' by the colour o' your jib.
12
The schooner, at this time, was under her mainsail, jib, and fore-top-sail.
13
I fancy Evelyn Waugh might have liked the cut of Colman's jib.
14
All their noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many jib-booms.
15
Afterward, McCain told Black that he liked the cut of Palin's jib.
16
I took in the jib, and he moored the boat near the lake.
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Jib across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common