GYBE

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

See Gibe.

2.
v.

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. [Also jibe.]

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