FLYING JIB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying jib mean? 

• FLYING JIB (noun)
  The noun FLYING JIB has 1 sense:

1. the outermost of two or more jibs

  Familiarity information: FLYING JIB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYING JIB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outermost of two or more jibs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flying jib" is a kind of...):

jib (any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast))

 Context examples 

I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had scarce gained a position on the bowsprit when the flying jib flapped and filled upon the other tack, with a report like a gun.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sail had been made in the early watches, so that the Ghost was racing along under everything except the two topsails and the flying jib.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“’Tis the fear iv death at the hearts iv them,” Louis muttered in my ear, as I passed forward to see to taking in the flying jib and staysail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Back we held, two miles and more to windward of the struggling cockle-shell, when the flying jib was run down and the schooner hove to.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We ran down the flying jib, hauled the jib-sheets to wind-ward and the main-sheet flat, and came up into the wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Down that flying jib, Mr. Van Weyden,” Wolf Larsen commanded.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As quietly as was possible, I clewed up the topsails, lowered the flying jib and staysail, backed the jib over, and flattened the mainsail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)