jib betydelse and definition

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".