Lexicographical Neighbors of Gybing
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Literary usage of Gybing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, in the Days of Oak and Hemp by Robert Charles Leslie (1890)
"Leading edge and after leech of a sail-wing—" Cut of his jib :" a good old
maxim—Lifting power of jib—gybing—Transition rig—The ketch: origin of the ..."
2. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1921)
"In a light breeze, the main sheet is slacked away roundly until the wind is aft,
then hauled in smartly for gybing and eased away steadily on the new lee ..."
3. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"As a rule, the peak of the mainsail should be dropped, if only to get the gaff
to leeward of the topping lift, besides rendering the operation of gybing ..."
4. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"Many fore-and-afters (particularly sloops), instead of gybing, will, under these
circumstances, frequently luff into the wind and come around on the other ..."
5. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"When shifting the backstays, as in gybing, one hand takes hold of the hauling
part of this " whip " to leeward, and hauls the backstay aft and gets it set ..."
6. Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul by Ahmed John Kenealy (1905)
"3 shows the manoeuvre of gybing, which is to keep the vessel away from the ...
It may be remarked that gybing a racing yacht " all standing " in a strong ..."
7. More T Leaves by Edward Francis Turner (1888)
"All of a sudden he shouted to me, " Look out, she's gybing." He did not tell me
where to look out, or what gybing implied; but I was not left long in ..."
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