jibe, gybe, jib, change course
(verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other; “The sail jibbed wildly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gybe (third-person singular simple present gybes, present participle gybing, simple past and past participle gybed)
(transitive, nautical) To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
(intransitive, nautical) Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
(intransitive, nautical) Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
(by extension, obsolete) Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.
Sense 3 (“to change tack”) is generally used of boats and other small sailing craft; the corresponding manoeuvre in a sailing ship is wear.
gybe (plural gybes)
(nautical) The act of gybing.
A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
(by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
gybe (plural gybes)
Alternative spelling of jibe
gybe (third-person singular simple present gybes, present participle gybing, simple past and past participle gybed)
Alternative spelling of jibe
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Source: Wiktionary
Gyb, Gybe (, n. (Naut.)
Definition: See Jib. [Obs.]
Gybe, n. & v.
Definition: See Gibe.
Gybe, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Gybed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gybing.] Etym: [See Jibe.] (Naut.)
Definition: 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
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