jibboom
IPA: dʒˈɪbum
noun
- Alternative spelling of jib-boom
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Examples of "jibboom" in Sentences
- It had a long bow sprit with jibboom and up to three headsails.
- All bobstays between jibboom and bow were made of massive steel rods and chains.
- The jibboom was plunged right into the water, and, as I stared, the bows disappeared into the sea.
- A terrific storm was experienced off the west coast of Ireland, in which the foretopgallant mast and jibboom were carried away.
- I cannot say just how many breaths or how many beatings of my heart passed before we saw the sharp jibboom stabbing the sky like a flagstaff set on a green hill.
- He next sailed from Philadelphia on the 13th of October, and on the 18th of the same month encountered a heavy gale, during which the Wasp lost her jibboom and two seamen.
- I stepped over the quarter rail, grasped the topmast stay of the sloop, swung myself on the jibboom, and in the space of a few seconds after the captain had concluded his maledictions
- But, I say, I do know something of yachting, and that isn't the way to brace up the marling-spike to the fokesell yard with the main jibboom three points in a wind with some East in it!
- Herbert Rice fell from a jibboom in a heavy sea, off Block Island, and this simple song, set to a very quaint old tune from a songbook called 'The Dulcimer,' is still remembered and sung.
- To the sea also I was indebted for long pieces to serve as wall plates, one being the jibboom of what must have been a sturdily-built boat, while the broken mast of a cutter fitted in splendidly as a ridge-pole.
- He did what he could to escape: he thought of girls, especially the pretty Miss Taylor; he climbed to the mizzentop to study Greek, slid on the jibboom to catch bonito, swung in a hammock beneath the spanker boom.
- Thus we had her sparred, all but a bowsprit and jibboom; yet this we managed by making a stumpy, spike bowsprit from one of the smaller spars which they had used to shore up the superstructure, and because we feared that it lacked strength to bear the strain of our fore and aft stays, we took down two hawsers from the fore, passing them in through the hawse-holes and setting them up there.