Jib definitions

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Jib is defined as to stop and not go back, or to make an adjustment in a sail so it will shift in the wind.

An example of jib is to come to a halt in the middle of a race.

An example of jib is to adjust the sails on a boat.

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The definition of a jib is an arm that sticks out of a crane, a triangular sail that stays in front of the mast, or an animal that stops and refuses to go back.

An example of a jib is the part of a crane that reaches out to grab.

An example of a jib is one of the sails on a sailboat.

An example of a jib is a horse who suddenly stops running in a race.

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A triangular sail stretching from the foretopmast head to the jib boom, the bowsprit, or the bow.
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The arm of a mechanical crane.
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The boom of a derrick.
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To stop short and turn restively from side to side; balk.
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To perform tricks by jumping onto and maneuvering over fixed obstacles such as railings or platforms. Used especially of snowboarders and skiers.
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The projecting arm of a crane.
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The boom of a derrick.
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To jibe (a sail or boom)
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A triangular sail secured to a stay forward of the mast or foremast.
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To stop and refuse to go forward; balk.
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To start or shy (at something)
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An animal that jibs, as a horse.
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(nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
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(nautical) Usually with a modifier, any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
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The projecting arm of a crane.
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(metonymically) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
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An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, inline skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
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Of a horse, to stop and refuse to go forward.
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(figuratively) To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
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Origin of jib

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Sentence Examples

  • 12 shows an ordinary hydraulic dock-side jib crane.

  • Dock-side jib cranes for working general cargo are almost always made portable, in order to enable them to be placed in correct position in regard to the hatchways of the vessels which they serve.

  • This type is usually fitted with a very high jib, so as to lift goods in and out of high-sided vessels.

  • this class is the ordinary jib crane.

  • Strictly speaking, the name alludes to the arm or jib from which the load to be moved is suspended, but it is now used in a wider sense to include the whole mechanism by which a load is raised vertically and moved horizontally.

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