inner jib
Americannoun
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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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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
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 French, Joseph Lewis
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)
Ship under reefed mainsail, staysail, and inner jib.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
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