inner jib
Americannoun
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The Felicidad, on the other hand, sailed like a witch, and kept her station without difficulty, under a single-reefed mainsail, foresail, and inner jib, with all her square canvas stowed.
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by Overend, William Heysham
Dropping the outer jib and mainsail, he jogged slowly before the wind under the jumbo, or inner jib.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
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
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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
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