boat may carry smaller jibs, to compensate aerodynamics when the main sail is reefed; these more rugged sails are called storm jibs or spitfires. On a boat...
System, or JIBS, a South Korean radio and TV station Jib (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title JIBS. If an internal...
Jibāl (Arabic: جبال), also al-Jabal (Arabic: الجبل), was the name given by the Arabs to a region and province located in western Iran, under the Umayyad...
JibJab is an American independent digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1999 by brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis...
Look up jibber-jabber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jibber Jabber may refer to: Jibber Jabber (TV series), a Canadian children's television series...
horizontal jibs in these fields. An early form of level-luffing gear was the "Toplis" design, invented by a Stothert & Pitt engineer in 1914. The crane jibs luffs...
jumps along with jibs requiring small jumps to mount. Large features include 30-to-90-foot (9.1 to 27.4 m) jumps along with complex jibs and large vertical...
Al Jib or al-Jib (Arabic: الجيب) is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, located ten kilometers northwest of...
both fore-and-aft sails, the jibs, staysails and mizzen sail, and square sails. Their naming conventions are: For jibs, attached to a bow sprit, (from...
Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual...
ketch. More commonly ketches have headsails (Jibs). When a ketch is rigged so that it can fly multiple jibs at the same time, the rig is sometimes referred...
set up a series of jibs and pulleys, and was lowered in a boatswain's chair, becoming the second person to reach the Main Chamber. Jib Tunnel was used for...
Arab Jibor (or Jabour) is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. It is a predominantly Sunni area to the immediate south-east of Baghdad that lies to the west...
referred to simply as the staysail, while the others are referred to as jibs, flying jibs, etc. Types of staysail include the tallboy staysail (a narrow staysail...
Samaria (/səˈmæriə, -ˈmɛəriə/) is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן), used as a historical and biblical name for the central...
flying jib-boom is attached to the jib-boom, and the heel of the jib-boom to the bowsprit. The point (i.e. higher and fore end) of the flying jib-boom is...
lacked jibs or booms, and the masts appear not to have been as robust as they were to become (a boat rigged with a Bermuda or gaff mainsail and no jib would...
Musandam / Raʾs Musandam), locally known as Ruus Al Jibal (Arabic: رُؤُوْس ٱلْجِبَال, romanized: Ruʾūs al-Jibāl Capes of the Mountains), is a peninsula that...
to be taken in. It was quite common for a ship to sail with topsails and jibs alone; the position of the topsails well above the sea ensured that they...
the mast, or in the luff foil of a roller-furling jib. Leech lines are found on mainsails and large jibs to tighten the leech and prevent fluttering. They...
like window shade, and 4.) have two jibs instead of one (often referred to as a 'cutter' rig), so one of the jibs can be taken in. Gaff rig Dedekam, Ivar...
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