inner jib

noun

, Nautical.

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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