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inner jib

noun

, Nautical.
  1. a headsail immediately forward of a forestaysail or fore-topmast staysail.


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Example Sentences

Then come the "outer jib" and the "inner jib" and the "foretopmast staysail."

Dropping the outer jib and mainsail, he jogged slowly before the wind under the jumbo, or inner jib.

To save time I let go the outer and inner jib-halliards, and, with the assistance of the steward, hauled these sails down.

We took in the foresail, mainsail, and inner jib, and had now only the topsail and a storm-trysail left.

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

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