inner jib

American  

noun

Nautical.

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

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Example Sentences

As long as there had been continuous need for action, that and the stern joy of a fight had shut out everything else for him; now that there was nothing to be done but hoist the inner jib when she came up too much into the wind and lower it when she paid off again, a need so recurring it was almost mechanical, he became as much a prey to inner questionings as his ship was to the winds.

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The sea-breeze has caught our craft; let them run up the inner jib, and see that she does not foul her anchor.'

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All through the afternoon the weather steadily became more unpleasant, and about one bell in the first dog-watch, it came on to rain—a cold, heavy, persistent downpour—while the wind piped up so fiercely that Leslie decided to haul down the third reef in his topsails, brail up and stow the trysail, and take in the inner jib without further delay, thus snugging the brig down for the night.

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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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There are other jibs, as inner jib, standing-jib, flying-jib, spindle-jib, jib of jibs, jib-topsails, &c.—Jib is also used for the expression of the face, as the cut of his jib.

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