"jib" Definition

Definitions for the word "jib" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 triangular staysail. 2 projecting arm of a crane. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. v.
(-bb-) 1 (esp. Of a horse) stop and refuse to go on. 2 (foll. By at) show aversion to. jibber n. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
6. slang
a first-year man.—_Dublin University._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
7. slang
or JIBBER, a horse that starts or shrinks. Shakspeare uses it in the sense of a worn-out horse.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
8. slang
the face, or a person’s expression; “the cut of his JIB,” _i.e._, his peculiar appearance. That sail of a ship, which in position and shape, corresponds to the nose on a person’s face.—_Sea._ A vessel is often known by the cut of the JIB sail; hence the popular phrase, “to know a man by the cut of his JIB.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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