Another gun was fired; and all of a sudden there was a rattling of blocks and chains, and the four mainsails slowly rose, and the flapping jibs were run out.
And, indeed, when the large top-sails and big jibs came to be set, it certainly seemed as if there was nothing below to steady this vast extent of canvas.
He was armed with an immense red cotton one which he flourished with far more vigor than grace, and, as the dance ended, he obeyed the figurative order from the first fiddler to "Square the mainyard and let the jibs run down!
The skipper kept the Johnnie going till the right time and then, when the tugboat people thought it was too late, he shot her about on her heel and into the dock with her mainsail coming down on the run and jibs dead.
The King Philip, another fast beauty, made her bow and dipped her jibs to her mates in harbor.
We did not start out to race, but gradually, as we found ourselves jogging along side by side, jibs were drawn away and sheets began to be trimmed.
With jibs and fore-and-aft sails, the tack confines them amidships.
Then he quickly trimmed in on the sheets, and the jibs began to draw.
They set the forestaysail and both jibs and the club-topsail on the Viking; and, there being no sea, with the wind offshore, they made fast time.
Jack Harvey let the jibs flutter for a moment, until the yacht had come about, and Henry Burns had begun to check her from falling off the wind, by reversing the wheel.
The jibs soon ceased to draw, however, as they were beginning to run squarely before the wind; so Ed Sanders contented himself with hauling up the centreboard, and then betook himself to the cabin, for a nap.
With only her fore, mainsail, and jibs set, the Perseverance soon left the harbor astern.
The light sails were clewed up and furled, the courses hauled up, and the jibs down; then came the topsails in the buntlines, and the anchor let go.
The sails were furled with great care, the bunts triced up by jiggers, and the jibs stowed in cloth.
Reefed jibs are not much use; they seldom work well, and it is far better to shift headsails than to reef them.
The jibs should be snap-hooked on the stay; in this way they can be quickly shifted.
If we did, I'm not sure we could get her to fall off again--one of the jibs is torn to ribands and the other's split.
Her bowsprit and two torn jibs above it were high in the air, and her black boom-foresail all bunched up, with its gaff, which had swung down, jammed against the foremast shrouds.
Heavy mainsails and jibs are generally used and the boat is built more for safety than for speed.
A heavy, hard-riding type soon developed, with short gaffs, low sails, large jibs and booms extending far over the stern.
Masts were now stepped farther forward, jibs were shortened, booms cut down, and the centre of sail-balance was brought more inboard and higher up, causing the centres of effort and resistance to come more in harmony.
The spinnaker must be the same size as the jibs in these races.
Sheets were trimmed for a beam wind, and with flyingjibs and balloon staysails set they went racing fast across the down-coming ebb.
Jibheaders were handed, flying jibs lowered, and working staysails set, and travelling upwards of twelve knots there was plenty of drift knocking about.
Get the jibs and staysail on to her," he commanded.
They set that, cast two jibsand the staysail loose, and let them lie.
Boom-foresail's worse, and the jibs are dropping off her, while the water just pours in through her top-sides when she puts another lee plank down.
She was coming up when he seized it, which almost threw him over it, and there was a bang like a rifle-shot as one of her streaming jibs was blown away.
All hands is bowsing out their jibs on it, sir, and the old Hall will soon be carrying as much sail as she can stagger under.
The little royal and top-gallant sail were half aback; the luffs of the jibs were trembling.
The jibs I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck, but the main-sail was a harder matter.
Within the minute I had his crew rigging jibs and staysails.
After jibs followed staysails, and last of all, studding-sails.
He managed to get a reef in one of the inner jibs and two reefs in the spanker, and then, with the aid of the watch-tackle, to hoist them to the stiff breeze that yet blew.
Working with mad haste, they flung out topsails, flying jibs and stay-sails.
I laugh when the wave leaps over the head And the jibs thro' the spray-bow shine, For an acre of foam is broken and spread When she shoulders and tosses the brine.
Working with mad haste, they flung out topsails, flyingjibs and staysails.
Then, there were the triangular jibs forward and the triangular staysails between the masts, with the quadrangular spanker like an aerial rudder on the lower mizzenmast.
The jibs and staysails are triangular, the spanker a quadrangular {108} fore-and-after.
The jibs and spanker generally go up at once, because they are useful as an aid to steering.
Jibs became universal, adding greatly to handiness in general and the power of tacking in particular.
At the firing of the gun on board the Sea Foam, they ran up their jibs and got a good start.
The instant the gun was discharged, the jibs were run up, and the "rodes" thrown overboard.
The jibs I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck, but the mainsail was a harder matter.
Ruggiero was sitting alone on one of the stone pillars on the little pier, gazing at the sea, or rather, at a vessel far away towards Ischia, running down the bay with every stitch of canvas set from her jibs to her royals.
The martinganes flatten in theirjibs along their high steeving bowsprits and jib-booms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jibs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
