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A rope used to draw in the jib boom or flying jib boom...
Boom
A long pole or spar run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail as the jib boom the studding sail boom etc...
Gib boom
See Jib boom...
Gyb
See Jib...
Jib
To move restively backward or sidewise said of a horse to balk...
Jibber
A horse that jibs...
Knockabout
A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger type is called a raceabout...
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
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