The meaning of GYBE is to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other —used of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom. How to use gybe in a sentence.
Gybe definition: (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. See examples of GYBE used in a sentence.
jibe(v.) "agree, fit," 1813,gibe, of unknown origin, originally U.S. colloquial, perhaps a figurative extension of earlierjib,gybe(v.) "shift a sail or boom" (seejib). OED, however, suggests a phonetic variant ofchime,as if meaning "to chime in with, to be in harmony." Related...
According to the author, the nautical terms "jib-sail" and "jib-boom" are not connected to the term "gibbet" by a shared meaning of "gallows" so much as by a shared sense of a bifurcated structure. It is also suggested that the term "jibe," meaning to be in agreement or accord ...
According to the author, the nautical terms "jib-sail" and "jib-boom" are not connected to the term "gibbet" by a shared meaning of "gallows" so much as by a shared sense of a bifurcated structure. It is also suggested that the term "jibe," meaning to be in agreement or accord ...