Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
gibe . - An obsolete spelling of
jibe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
gibe . - verb (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb nautical To change
tack with thewind crossing behind the boat. (Mostly used of boats and other small sailing craft — the corresponding manoeuver in a sailing ship is towear .) - verb nautical To shift a fore-and-aft sail suddenly and forcefully from one side to the other, while sailing before the wind. (also
jibe .) - verb To sneer (see
gibe .) - verb gybe at: to hesitate, vacillate, or
balk when faced with a proposal, plan, or course of action. (Obsolete) - noun The act of gybing.
- noun A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a boat is sailing.
- noun A sudden change in direction or approach;
vacillation . - noun A sneer. (see
gibe .)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shift from one side of the ship to the other
Etymologies
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Examples
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You'll gybe in a squall when there isn't a motor boat to pick you up, or you'll get a pleurisy when I'm not there, or you'll crash your car where labourers don't come.
Movie Night 2010
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It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you.
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"It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you." ... unless you're a white Republican living in the South ...
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Here Krantzius in the first place beginneth with such a gybe
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Here Krantzius in the first place beginneth with such a gybe
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Boats accidentally gybe all the time; people sometimes get hit with the boom.
The Short Forever Woods, Stuart 2001
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Some time elapsed, for it was blowing strong, before the main sheet could be hauled in to gybe the sail; during which the cutter was running along the shoal or bar in ten feet water, which was not sufficient to float her; for she struck the ground violently every time that the swell passed by.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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So they ran before it largely till the bows were pressed right under, and it was no human poser that saved the gybe.
Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911
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And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water.
The Celebrity, Complete Winston Churchill 1909
chained_bear commented on the word gybe
"'...in my considered opinion she is a perfectly odious woman.'
"As though struck down by a judgment the moment he had finished these words, he pitched forward out of his chair on to what little deck was free... An even younger midshipman ... had committed the vessel to a manoeuvre that, the guys being untimely cast off, resulted in a truly monumental gybe."
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 194
March 19, 2008