flying jib

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.

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flying jib British  

noun

1. the jib set furthest forward or outboard on a vessel with two or more jibs

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Etymology

Origin of flying jib

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

“That canoe isn’t big enough to carry a flying jib,” Nat said.

From Literature

So we set all the little sails, but we did not get out from the sail locker that gafftopsail and the jibtopsail and that wonderful flying jib.

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But his sheets and halyards had been so shot away that not a sail could be set, except the flying jib.

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Then: Crack! from aloft, and crack! went the jibboom, and the flying jib was off and away to leeward like a bat.

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Governor, you and Jack Spaniard hoist the flying jib.

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