'Gybe' definitions:
Definition of 'gybe'
(from WordNet)
verb
Shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly" [syn: jibe, gybe, jib, change course]
Definition of 'Gybe'
From: GCIDE
- Gyb \Gyb\ (j[i^]b), Gybe \Gybe\ (j[imac]b), n. (Naut.) See Jib. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gybe'
From: GCIDE
- Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Gybed (j[imac]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gybing.] [See Jibe.] (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also jibe.] [1913 Webster]