inner jib
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ship under reefed mainsail, staysail, and inner jib.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
The sea-breeze has caught our craft; let them run up the inner jib, and see that she does not foul her anchor.'
From The Pirate, and The Three Cutters by Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph)
We were then carrying the double reefed topsails, reefed courses, inner jib, fore and main topmast staysail, but the gale had so increased I gave orders to close-reef the topsails and furl the mainsail.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter
The Felicidad, on the other hand, sailed like a witch, and kept her station without difficulty, under a single-reefed mainsail, foresail, and inner jib, with all her square canvas stowed.
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by Overend, William Heysham
The third jib in large ships, as the inner jib, the jib, and the flying jib, set on the flying jib-boom.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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