jib-boom - The spar beyond the bowsprit in schooners upon which the outer jib is set.
jibe - To change direction (when sailing); when the sailboat's boom swings to the opposite side.
Jib-boom - Spar forward of bowsprit to extend the foot of the outer jib.
Jibber the Kibber - The act of decoying a ship ashore by means of false lights.
Jibe - see Gybe ...
" by the jib-boom. The square spritsail, which could not be trained fore and aft, and was of feeble effect in keeping the ship's head from turning to windward, has been replaced by the jib.
Bowsprit: A large spar or boom running out from the stem of a vessel [the front or pointy end of the vessel], to which (and the jib-boom and flying jib-boom, which extend beyond it) the foremast stays are fastened.
At anchor in an open roadstead, use cilia bags from jib-boom, or haul them out ahead of the vessel by means of an endless rope rove through a tail-block secured to the anchor chain (Fig. 80).
A short spar perpendicular the bowsprit, used with martingales for holding down the jib-boom. The position is such that a dolphin leaping at the bow of a vessel could possibly be struck by this spar. (back)
donkey boiler ...
Broad reaching, when conventional overlapping headsails twist off and lose their efficiency, the Jib-Boomed sail keeps a powerful shape. Running, the sail poles itself out, and easily flips to a wing-and-wing mode.
H eeZ Rope is to haul out jib-booms, and the bowsprits of cutters, &c. Passing Ropes lead round the ship, through eyes'
in the quarter, waist, gangway, and forecastle stanchions, for- ward to the knight-heads.
 See also: Boom, Ship, Secure, Anchor, Running
  
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