inner jib
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ship under reefed mainsail, staysail, and inner jib.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
Then, rushing forward, I laid out on the jib-boom and cast loose the inner jib, which Fonseca and José at once proceeded to hoist.
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson
Shortly after breakfast, Captain Coxon sent me forward to dispatch a couple of hands on to the jib-boom to snug the inner jib, which looked to be rather shakily stowed.
From Great Sea Stories by Joseph Lewis French
In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships.
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 Sir Edward Belcher
Dropping the outer jib and mainsail, he jogged slowly before the wind under the jumbo, or inner jib.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Albert Walter Tolman
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