Jib is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JIB in dictionary:

VERB:
• to draw back, to renegue
• (of an animal, especially a horse) stop and refuse to go on
• (of a person) be unwilling to do or accept something
• A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
• The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
• To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
• refuse to comply
• shift from one side of the ship to the other
NOUN:
• a triangular staysail set forward of the mast.
• the projecting arm of a crane.
• any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to refuse to proceed further
• same as jibe

Words related to JIB

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Words that contain JIB

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How to use JIB in a sentence

• The creature tried to jib back upon his prostrate master, but he dragged him forward and held him fast.
• Then let happen what would! He reached for a line and hoisted a jib, though it was almost more canvas than his small craft could carry.
• By the time dinner was over they were forced to put double reefs in mainsail and jib, and still the gale had not reached its height.
• The mainsail came down with a run, and the boat kept on with the jib only, though of course at a slower rate.
• I did not trouble myself about the jib, one sail being enough for me to begin with.
• In order to do this with success, Mark now commenced hauling down the jib.
• In the course of the ten hours she had been out, the Neshamony had run about seventy miles, having a square-sail set, in addition to her jib and mainsail.
• The jib is 69 feet in the hoist, and 70 in the foot.
• The old half-burnt blankets were patched together and a mainsail and jib were completed.
• The jib had been snugly furled before darkness set in.
• She began to jib like a horse and refused to obey her rudder.
• Then, at a sharp order, David hoisted and trimmed the jib, leaving Cabot to cat the anchor.
• Not a fourth of a mile away a dingy fishing-sloop was bobbing along, with her dirty mainsail and jib set, yet seeming to catch no breeze.
• Hoisting the jib to the mainmast by way of a storm-sail, he hove to, putting the head of the vessel towards the land.
• The schooner trembled to her keel under the reverse, but next moment, the other sails still drawing, the jib flapped back again and hung idle.
• Thalassa discerned that at once by the cut of their jib.
• No, the condition is this, and there is nothing in it that you need jib at.
• The small jib is already bent in place of the big one, for the night is dark and some of those smart puffs will soon be like little squalls.
• It never occurred to the captain that his crew might jib at the thought of undertaking so perilous a course.

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