jib boom

American  

Or jibboom

noun

Nautical.

1. a spar forming a continuation of a bowsprit.

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jib boom British  

noun

1. nautical a spar forming an extension of the bowsprit

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Etymology

Origin of jib boom

First recorded in 1740–50

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Example Sentences

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jib boom

At the corner of the gloomy passage a rigged jib boom with a dolphin-striker ending in an arrow-head stuck out of the night close to a cast iron lamp-post. 

From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

The sea was rough from the effects of a storm that had swept those latitudes the day before, in which Captain Jones had lost his jib boom and two of his crew.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

A dark slab of muck tuck, or blubber, was dangling from her stumpy jib boom.

From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage

And then, seeing by the Jacobins rudder that she was going off, he brought the Charlotte sharp round, her jib boom grazing the second Frenchman as her side had grazed the flag of the first.

From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The mate at once went out to the end of the flying jib boom, and fastened there the mystic symbol of the ban.

From Omoo by Herman Melville

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