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jib
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jib \Jib\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Jibbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jibbing .] Also Jibb \Jibb\ [Cf. Jib a sail, Gybe .] (Chiefly Naut.) To shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
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In cinematography , a jib is a boom device with a camera on one end, and a counterweight and camera controls on the other. It operates like a see-saw , but with the balance point located close to the counterweight, so that the camera end of the arm can ...
Usage examples of jib.
Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb-- one engaged forward and the other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
They took in the jib to slow the boat down, and signaled Bobber to come alongside.
Surely mortal men must break under such punishment, yet they came on, clambering over the torn and twitching corpses of their comrades, their multi-coloured jib has plastered with reeking black mud, never wavering, each man trying to fight his way to the front rank of the attack, scornful of death, eager to seek it out in the smoking muzzles of the guns.
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.
Small, Doctor Inchball, Hetch Heckler, Biddy Stuckmeyer and Deborah Jib.
He had drawn the bowsprit, the jib, and the stays running to the foremast.
Its booms swung across the deck, its jibs went limp and fluttered for a moment, then reinflated and snapped tight again as the boat settled into a new course.
The Parker Sportster, it seemed, came with an aluminum mast, a mainsail, a jib, a rudder, and a centerboard.
At eight bells, with both watches on deck, he took in the spritsail, got the yard fore and aft, set the inner jib, and bore up another point.
Surprise spread more canvas: studdingsails alow and aloft, royals, the rarely-seen but useful spritsail topsail, all the jibs that would set and a cloud of staysails.
Penrod and Yakub wore turbans and Ansar jib has for they would be riding north through the Dervish lines.
Awareness into the Air Particles, and Rennel scurried to backwind the jib and tighten the main.
Morton and was surprised to find the ship still carrying unreefed topsails, forecourse, and jibs, despite the rising wind.
It was raked forward to give the foresail room, as though it had been pulled out of true by the forestay and the laboring jib.
She had no time to test the forestay before Anthony hoisted the jib and allowed it to flap while he turned the sloop head-to-wind so he could attach the mainsail.