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noun Nautical.

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

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How to use inner jib in a sentence

Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen|Sharon Adarlo|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For his part though, the dude with the inner grandma is pretty much just looking ahead.
Chris Colfer on Writing, Acting, and the Pain of Being A Pop Culture Trailblazer|Oliver Jones|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There must be in his life, as Truffaut remarked about Hitchcock's films, “inner fire and cool surfaces.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This can be seen not just in distant exurbs or suburbs, but in prime inner-city neighborhoods.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead|Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa|Jay Michaelson|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
She was even meditating a retreat, inexplicably embarrassed, when an inner door opened and Lady Victoria entered.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
He found the man, with his wife and children, in a large corner room opening on the inner court of the Mission quadrangle.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe