Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small jib made of heavy canvas and used in bad weather.
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Examples
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"Better rig that storm-trysail on the main, and a storm-jib," Grief said to the mate.
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Her two masts leaned a trifle backward; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib, and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot-boat races.
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A single triangular sail, of strong canvas, was hoisted as a storm-jib, so as to hold the wind from behind.
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Nothing seemed possible to save us, but the interposition of Heaven; for the storm-jib and reefed foresail were the only sails on the cutter, and they were barely sufficient, in such a sea, to give her steerage way.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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"Better rig that storm-trysail on the main, and a storm-jib," Grief said to the mate.
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After getting two reefs in the mainsail, and the third or storm-jib set, the wind being S.W., she bent to windward, though blowing a hard gale, and got into St. Andrews Bay, where we passed the night under the lee of Fifeness.
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There mere no men on earth save these two who would not have got her under a trysail and a rag of a storm-jib with fifteen reefs and another: not so the heroes.
Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Two spare courses were then got up and bent in the same manner and furled, and a storm-jib, with the bonnet off, bent and furied to the boom.
Chapter XXV. Rumors of War-A Spouter-Slipping for a South-Easter-A Gale 1909
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"Better rig that storm-trysail on the main, and a storm-jib," Grief said to the mate.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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No sooner was it light enough for them to fairly make us out, than they shifted their sails, substituting single-reefed lateens for the lugs, and taking in their storm-jib out of the way.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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