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单词 gybe
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Example sentences from the Web for gybe

  • The Phantom had to come about, and get on the right tack, for Guilford was too careful to gybe in that wind.

    The Yacht Club|Oliver Optic
  • So they ran before it largely till the bows were pressed right under, and it was no human poser that saved the gybe.

    Hills and the Sea|H. Belloc
  • Gybe, or Jibe, to; to shift over the boom of a fore-and-aft sail.

    Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements|Various

gybe

jibe

nautical

verb

(intr) (of a fore-and-aft sail) to shift suddenly from one side of the vessel to the other when running before the wind, as the result of allowing the wind to catch the leech
to cause (a sailing vessel) to gybe or (of a sailing vessel) to undergo gybing

noun

an instance of gybing

Word Origin for gybe

C17: from obsolete Dutch gijben (now gijpen), of obscure origin

Words nearby gybe

Gwyn, Gwynedd, gwyniad, Gy, Gyani, gybe, Gyges, gym, gym bunny, gymel, gymkhana
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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