How to use in-sentence of “jib”:
+ More commonly jib make a minor direct contribution to moving the boat, compared to a mainsail.
+ Boats may be sailed using a jib alone.
+ A jib is a Triangletriangular foremast of a sailing vessel.
+ A second jib on the main forestay is called “the jib“.
+ An overlapping jib is called a “genoa jib” or simply a genoa.
+ A skiff is small with large sails called a spinnaker, a jib and mainsail.
+ In a cutter rig, the jib or jibs are flown from stays in front of the forestay, perhaps going from the masthead to a bowsprit.
+ At the time a cutter was a small fast sailing vessel described as “a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail.” “The Oxford Companion to Ships the Sea”, ed.
