flying jib

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• flying jib-boom

  A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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• Jib

  ·add. ·noun One that jibs, or balks; a jibber. II. Jib ·add. ·noun A stationary condition; a stands...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jib

  A large triangular sail, set on a stay, forward. It extends from the outer end of the jib-boom towar...

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• Flying

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fly>>. II. Flying ·vi Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightl...

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• jib-boom

  A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...

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• jib-foresail

  In cutters, schooners, &c., it is the stay-foresail. ...

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• jib-guys

  Stout ropes which act as backstays do to a mast, by supporting the jib-boom against the pressure of ...

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• jib-stay

  The stay on which the jib is set. ...

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• jib-topsail

  A light sail set on the topmost stay of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• jib-traveller

  An iron ring fitted to run out and in on the jib-boom, for the purpose of bringing outwards or inwar...

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• jib-tye

  A rope rove through a sheave or block on the fore-topmast head, for hoisting the jib. ...

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• outer-jib

  In sloops, where the head-sails are termed foresail-jib and outer-jib, if set from the foremast-head...

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• spitfire-jib

  In cutters, a small storm-jib of very heavy canvas. ...

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• standing-jib

  The jib, as distinguished from the other jibs. ...

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• storm-jib

  In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships. ...

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• Flying boat

  ·add. ·- A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull. ...

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• Flying fish

  ·- A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its larg...

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• Flying squirrel

  ·- One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds...

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• flying camps

  Beggars plying in a body at funerals. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying giggers

  Turnpike gates. ...

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• flying house

  A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying pasty

  Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall. ...

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• flying porters

  Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come fro...

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• flying stationers

  Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny histories. ...

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• flying-fox

  n. a gigantic Australian bat, Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. It has a fetid odour anddoes great damag...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flying-mouse

  n. See opossum-mouse and flying-phalanger. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flying-phalanger

  n. included in the classof Phalanger (q.v.). The «flying» Phalangers «havedeveloped large parachute...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flying-squirrel

  n. popular name for aFlying-Phalanger, Petaurus sciureus, Shaw, a marsupialwith a parachute-like fo...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• kite flying

  An expression well known to mercantile men of limited means, or who are short of cash. It is a combi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flying about

  Synonymous with chop-about (which see). ...

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• flying column

  A complete and mobile force kept much on the move, for the sake of covering the designs of its own a...

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• flying dutchman

  A famous marine spectre ship, formerly supposed to haunt the Cape of Good Hope. The tradition of sea...

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• flying-kites

  The very lofty sails, which are only set in fine weather, such as skysails, royal studding-sails, an...

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• flying-light

  The state of a ship when she has little cargo, provisions, or water on board, and is very crank. ...

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• flying-to

  Is when a vessel, from sailing free or having tacked, and her head thrown much to leeward, is coming...

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• set flying

  Sails that do not remain aloft when taken in, but are hauled on deck or stowed in the tops, as skysa...

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• inner jib-stay

  A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...

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• jib of jibs

  A sixth jib on the bowsprit, only known to flying-kite-men: the sequence being storm, inner, outer, ...

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• Flying Horse Court

  1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Flying Horse Yard

  1) East out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). Former name : "Wh...

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• the cut of his jib

  The form of his profile, the cast of his countenance; as, "I knew him by the cut of his jib." A naut...

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• cut of the jib

  A phrase for the aspect of a vessel, or person. ...

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• jib and staysail jack

  A designation of inexperienced officers, who are troublesome to the watch by constantly calling it u...

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• Flying Horse Court, Yard

  North out of Fleet Street to Serjeants Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799)....

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• Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch

  East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...

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• Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Foster Street. ...

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• Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley

  West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...

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