gybe

Speech parts

1. gybe - Noun

2. gybe - Verb

Meaning

See Jib.

See Gibe.

To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

jib jibe change course barb cant cast match fit agree correspond dig ridicule tally mockery balk

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Antonyms

last still attack remain continue maintain

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Hypernyms

sail

Derivatives

gybed gybing

Examples

The sail jibbed wildly Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gyatt gyaul gyb gye gyeld gyelong