jib
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She also uses a floating router jib for most of their joinery since the machine can’t rest on the wood’s uneven surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
To borrow the old sailing expression, they liked the cut of his jib.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2024
It leans like a ladder in midair, “and the camera is on another track with a jib arm and a dolly attached to the top of the jib.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Once we’re clear of the port, the crew gets to work, hoisting the main sail, followed by the jib.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
A red jib was set and the skipper was carefully trying to steer it toward the dock.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
You swerved; you shied; you jibbed; you baulked.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2016
But the leaders of the 125-lawyer firm jibbed at his demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Congress jibbed a bit, the President said he could accept a $1.3 billion "bookkeeping" cut.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had no carbide, and my carburetter had jibbed, so we decided to stop at Ciry for the night.
From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by William Henry Lowe Watson
Then the old ’bus jibbed for a bit.
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
Security Minister Dan Jarvis said that the problem was a recurring one, telling MPs that "forced entry, tailgating, and so-called jibbing, are not victimless acts".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
You find the jibbing echos of the movement in Rom-Coms like "Scott Pilgrim Versus the World" today.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
Former House Speaker John Boehner cried frequently enough during his tenure that it became expected—so at least the jibbing he received didn’t make him feel the need to hide his emotions.
From Time ● Feb. 8, 2016
Eric Crozier is here and doing his stuff without jibbing, and I seem able to turn honest English prose with duetinnos or arias when required to do so.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
One has no time for brooding when one is driving a horse in a jibbing fit.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
