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Gybe  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. gybed; pres. part. gybing)  (Also jibe)  (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.






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"Gybe" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned to me—"bring her nose round to sou'-west and by south, and stand by for the gybe." He hauled in the main-sheet and eased it over. "Now, see here, lad," he called to me sharply as the little vessel yawed: "where were your eyes ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)



Words linked to "Gybe" :   change course, sail



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