He pointed vaguely with a hand that shook a little across the dismal slate-grey waters beyond the bows, but Appleby understood him, for it was the unknown that was filled as yet with great and alluring possibilities the jibboom pointed to.
The yards and jibboom and flying-jibboom are fitted with foot-ropes for the men to stand on.
Answering to the topmasts on the three masts is the jibboom on the bowsprit, and in continuation of that the flying-jibboom.
As they were about this work, a tremendous sea struck the bows, the gaskets got loose, the jibboom was carried away, and with it the two poor fellows who were endeavouring to secure the sail.
The lighter canvas was instantly handed--young Sam and one of the men who had gone in the boat were ordered out on the jibboom to furl the flying jib.
It might be an admirable thing for the Empire that the jibboom spanker should be spliced at that particular juncture, but the crew would naturally decline to move in the matter until the order came from the commander of the ship.
Then as the vessel see-sawed, the jibboom of the Guerriere crossed the Constitution's quarter deck.
The Serapis made another effort to get into position to rake the American, but in the blinding smoke she ran her jibboom afoul of the starboard mizzen shrouds of the Bonhomme Richard.
The jibboom had been run out, and the stays set up.
Her topmasts were standing, but her jibboom was rigged in.
The fisherman then takes his seat upon the jibboom end, having first, if he is prudent, secured a sack to the jibstay in such a manner that its mouth gapes wide.
But on the second day of our enforced detention a ship poked her jibboom round the west end of the little bay.
Jibboom and bowsprit were also smashed, and a single glance at the ship would have told even a landsman that she was doomed.
So dense was the snow-mist that it was impossible to see the jibboom when standing close by the bowsprit.
Surely it was not his fault if the second day out, during the height of the storm, the jibboom had carried away, and two of the starboard watch went with it and were lost.
Bill ordered one of the men to get out to the jibboom end with a piece of pork, and heave it as far ahead as he could fling.
When she went about going up Channel once, her spanker pretty nigh swept away one of the towers of Calais, while her jibboom run right into Dover Castle.
The breaking of the 'Sappho's' jibboom was unfortunate, but before the accident it was made tolerably clear that in a light wind the English vessels had the heels of her, both with the wind free and sailing close hauled.
The jibboom was a splendid Oregon spar, 54 feet long, projecting 28 feet beyond the bowsprit.
The 'Dauntless' unfortunately lost two men, who were swept off the jibboom when endeavouring to take in the flying jib, and this delayed her for some hours.
The lighter canvas was instantly handed--young Sam and one of the men who had gone in the boat were ordered out on the jibboom to furl the flying-jib.
After this calamity the speed of the tug was reduced until the jibboom was rigged and the anchors secured.
Her bowsprit and jibboom soared into the air exactly like those of the galleons of old, and her three skimpy masts stood like broomsticks at different angles--the foremast especially, which looked over the bows.
We were rapidly nearing the bar, upon which the rising wind was making a heavy sea get up, and ourjibboom had to be rigged out.
So she might have done with the greatest ease, but having fired our broadside just as her flying jibboom was touching our mainyard, we bore up, and her bow struck our larboard quarter.
One of the men, old Growles, scrambled on to the bowsprit, to which he held on like grim death, but before the other man could follow his example, the jibboom was carried away and he with it.
When I called for a volunteer to cut away the flying jibboom he made for the axe and rushed onto the sea-swept forecastle-head.
Like a flash I wondered how the Hindoo knew that the jibboom was gone.
Your flying-jibboom is gone overboard and is still held by the lee guy.
The men who were making fast the headsails on the flying jibboom could be heard plainly from the poop deck, growling and swearing as they passed the gaskets around the sails.
When I awoke, perhaps it would be four bells or even six, and there would be James, with his specs athwart his great jibboom of a nose, poring earnestly over his mother's Bible.
The vessel, as I have already said, had been dashed stern on to the rocks and into the gully, and the jibboom hung over a black, slippery precipice that descended sheer down into the sea.
After half an hour of incessant broadsides, the two vessels had approached each other so close, that the jibboom of the Frenchman was pointed between the fore and main rigging of the Portsmouth.
When the last grappling was severed, the Gannet swung slowly round, her flyingjibboom still entangled in the pirate's bowsprit shrouds.
Suddenly, with a swirl of beaten water, a huge vessel loomed out of the mist, her flying jibboom seeming to project right over our stern.
The jibboom is made of two pieces of yellow pine, grooved out and hooped together; it is about 70 feet long and about 8 inches in diameter; the foot of the jib is laced to this spar on hooks (when required).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jibboom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
