flying jib
English
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editNoun
editflying jib (plural flying jibs)
- (nautical) The foremost of the jibs of a square-rigged sailing vessel.
- 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
- Next thing, rigging is heaved down directly over our heads, and a long-drawn cry and a rattling of hanks announce that the flying-jib has come in.
Translations
editThe foremost of the jibs of a square-rigged sailing vessel
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