Jaws

jaws - A fitting holding a boom or gaff to the mast.
jenny - A genoa jib. A large jib that overlaps the mast.
jetty - A man made structure projecting from the shore. May protect a harbor entrance or aid in preventing beach erosion.

jaws of a gaff - The horns at the end of the gaff which half encircle the mast. A rope called a "jaw rope," or jaw parrel, is fitted to the ends of the horns, and, passing round the mast, keeps the gaff in its place.

jaws
The sides of a U-shaped opening in a fitting, such as a shackle, intended to be secured to another object, such as a padeye. The jaws are fitted over the object, then closed and secured to it with a clevis pin.

It consists of two narrowing jaws with teeth in which the line is placed.
Jaw - The distance between a rope's adjacent strands, giving a measure of the tightness of the lay. The shorter the distance, the harder the lay.

When it is necessary to set the trysail, adjust the jaws of the gaff to the mast, make fast the parrel, hook on the throat and peak halyard blocks and mouse them.

jaws A semicircle or U-shaped end on a boom or gaff which fits around the mast jenny See genoa jib 1. A triangular sail set forward of the mast; 2. A foresail or headsail; 3.

The afterguy, working guy, or simply guy is attached to the windward clew of the spinnaker, and runs through the jaws on the outboard end of the pole and back to the cockpit.

These spars have a prong called " the jaws," which fit to the mast, and are held in place by a " jaw rope " on which are threaded beads called trucks.

-It consists of two narrowing jaws with teeth in which the line is placed.
Jenny: A genoa jib. A large jib that overlaps the mast, also Genny.
Jetsam: Anything deliberately thrown overboard - debris, jettisoned items, floating at sea.

A cleat designed to hold a line in place without slipping. It consists of two narrowing jaws with teeth in which the line is placed. Also see cam cleat.
jaws
A fitting holding a boom or gaff to the mast.

In general, however, an extremis situation is one in which a collision is imminent, in which there is an immediate danger of collision ("in the jaws of a collision"). The collision need not occur for an extremis situation to have existed.