Exempel på jib

• An ornament of cast iron just below the jib-boom decorated her bow.

• The phrase the cut of his jib suggests that you can judge people from their appearance and had a special significance for the sailor.

• The jib is the triangular sail in the forepart of the ship and the first sail one would see as a vessel approached.

• It was a prop or chain passing down from the jib-boom end to the dolphin striker and staying the jib-boom against the upward pull of the jib and jib-stay. 13.

• As the crane lifted the king post vertically, the jib of the crane began to buckle.

• The extension of the franchise in the last 100 years was, fortunately, stopped at adult franchise—even the most ardent egalitarian jibbed at animal franchise.

• It is the unions that might be expected to jib at the lack of success of their members at tribunals.

• It would perhaps be pedantic for me to jib at the word "global".

• No wonder that the leaders jibbed and then broke away, leaving the coach in the middle of the road, but still unbroken.

• A great deal has been done to screen the jib and it has been done every day to an increasing extent.

• I should not have thought he need jib at this comparatively modest alteration.

• During the same time the jib, boiler, and machinery will be in course of construction.

• What we have seen in the last few months—indeed, the last couple of years—is that we jib at the price we have to pay.

• I say "a certain amount": some of them do jib a bit at the present restrictions.

• I do not know whether we should jib at the word.