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jib boom

noun

a spar fixed to and extending beyond the bowsprit of a ship, used in securing a jib or other headsail
also jibboom jib′·boom′ (-bo̵̅o̅m′)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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