Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gybe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gyb \Gyb\ (j[i^]b), Gybe \Gybe\ (j[imac]b), n. (Naut.)
See {Jib}. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gybe \Gybe\ (j[imac]b), n. & v.
See {Gibe}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Gybed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gybing}.] [See {Jibe}.] (Naut.)
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of
the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered
off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also
{jibe}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gybe
v : shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail
jibbed wildly" [syn: {jibe}, {jib}, {change course}]
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