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flying jib
noun
Nautical.
- the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
flying jib
noun
- the jib set furthest forward or outboard on a vessel with two or more jibs
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of flying jib1
First recorded in 1825鈥35
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鈥淭hat canoe isn鈥檛 big enough to carry a flying jib,鈥 Nat said.
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So we set all the little sails, but we did not get out from the sail locker that gafftopsail and the jibtopsail and that wonderful flying jib.
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But his sheets and halyards had been so shot away that not a sail could be set, except the flying jib.
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Then: Crack! from aloft, and crack! went the jibboom, and the flying jib was off and away to leeward like a bat.
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Governor, you and Jack Spaniard hoist the flying jib.
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