inner jib

American  

noun

Nautical.

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

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inner jib

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 Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph) Sullivan

A sail set upon the flying jib-boom.—Middle or inner jib.

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

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

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by James Elverson

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.

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

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

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