Gybe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Jib.

II. Gybe ·noun & ·v ·see Gibe.

III. Gybe ·vt & ·vi 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.

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