A similar contrivance adapted to a martingale to support the jib-boom in that particular part where the jib-tack is fixed. (See martingale.)
·noun ·Alt. of <<Martingal>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A rope extending downwards from the jib-boom end to a kind of short gaff-shaped spar, fixed perpendi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- of <<Travel>>. ...
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
, are generally the breast-backstays, which set up with a runner purchase in the channels on the wea...
The jib traveller guys are seized on to the traveller, and are shortened in and set up when the jib ...