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WordNet
n. a spar that extends the bowsprit
Wikipedia
A jibboom (also spelt jib-boom) is a spar used to extend the length of a bowsprit on sailing ships. It can itself be extended further by a flying jib-boom. The heel (i.e. rear and lower) end of the flying jib-boom is attached to the jib-boom, and the heel of the jib-boom to the bowsprit. The point (i.e. higher and fore end) of the flying jib-boom is generally the fore-most extent of a ship. The jib- and flying jib- booms carry the tacks of the jib and flying jib sails, respectively, and the stay for the fore topgallant mast and the royal stay.
Usage examples of "jibboom".
Ramage could see that the jibboom and bowsprit that be had been aiming for was now pointing at the mainshrouds of the second ship and in a few moments would catch them as though the ship was a lancer lunging at a passing bush.
Ramage thought of the ship of the line they had encountered earlier in the day: please, no damage to the jibboom and bowsprit!
And the jibboom and bowsprit were still standing, with no damage apparent from where Ramage stood.
Two shots fell short, sending up tall spouts of water, but there seemed to be no damage to the jibboom or bowsprit.
From the stump of her jibboom and her cutwater great beards of rime and marine growths hung downward into the scum that held her in.
To the sea also I was indebted for long pieces to serve as wall plates, one being the jibboom of what must have been a sturdily-built boat, while the broken mast of a cutter fitted in splendidly as a ridge-pole.
Kreel had retreated to the very end of the jibboom where he clung to a stay, swaying with the movement of the ship.
If I time it right our mast should snap off her jibboom and with a bit of luck her bowsprit should catch in our rigging.
Destroy the outer end of the jibboom and you could be fairly sure the jerk on the foreroyal stay would bring the highest, the foreroyal mast, toppling down, while smashing the whole jibboom would probably bring down the topgallant mast as well.
They seemed to be typical galliots of the French Channel ports - except that the mainmasts were set so far aft, and the stays from the mainmast to the stemhead, bowsprit and jibboom seemed fewer than usual but comparatively massive.
A comparatively short bowsprit and a long jibboom, three headsails lying in heaps at the foot of the stays, and he could just make out the upper curve of the drum of the windlass.
Motel 6 at Richards Boulevard and Jibboom Street in central Sacramento when officers served their search warrant at 3:30 A.
Then it was their turn, the first sea sent in earnest by the broad Atlantic, sending their bow with its great jibboom spearing up to the sky, then to crash down in a stomach-stopping smother of foam.
Ahead, the bowsprit out to the flying jibboom rose skywards as though to spear the racing dark clouds before swooping down to smash into the waves ahead in a violent paroxysm of white.
The jibboom thrust out ahead, the headsails soaring up to the tops and beyond, taut and eager.