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to jibe

to jibe

1 9.6
To move a sail or boat quickly from one side to the other when sailing with the wind
  • verb
  • /dʒaɪb/
  • Specialized
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  • The sailor needed to quickly jibe the sail to catch the wind and gain speed.

Examples

  • Before the race began, the captain instructed the crew to jibe when they reached the buoy.

  • You jibed the boat.

    White Squall (1996)

  • "Yeah." "A big gust came along, and we jibed." "Shit," Mike said, and that's when Snow knew he was a sailor.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Peugeot makes diesel hybrids, but other manufacturers have shied away from this due to the added cost of diesels and the fact that they don't jibe as well with the flat torque curve of an electric motor.

    Blog text (25)

  • As the wind changed direction, the team had to jibe the boat to maintain their course.

Synonyms

to change course
vsto jibe
41 3.7

Turn a ship to a new direction to avoid danger

describes a sudden sideways shift when sailing with the wind not a general turn
to jib
vsto jibe
  • Specialized
9.9

To move suddenly from one side of a boat to the other, usually about a sail or boom

refers to the whole vessel changing side rather than just the sail or boom

Antonyms

to stabilize
  • US
75 4.3

To become steady and stop changing

to hold steady
17 2.9

Keep something or someone in place and still

How Abrupt

to veer
63 4.2
to jibe
  • Specialized
1 9.6
to turn
∞ 1.0
to edge
10 3.9

Surface Forms

jibe infinitive
jibing present participle
jibes third person singular
jibed past
jibed past participle

Etymology

The sailing verb jibe, also spelled gybe, originally named a sudden turn of the sail that makes the boom swing across the boat, so to jibe is to make a quick sideways shift of a sail.