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CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS
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Gybe

 : 
Noun, Verb (intransitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Gybe has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gyben. 
     See Jib.  [1913 Webster]
Gyben. & v. 
     See Gibe.  [1913 Webster]
Gybev. t. & i. [See Jibe.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Gybe, v. & n. (US jibe)
--v.
1 intr. (of a fore-and-aft sail or boom) swing across in wearing or running before the wind.
2 tr. cause (a sail) to do this.
3 intr. (of a ship or its crew) change course so that this happens.
--n. a change of course causing gybing.

Etymology
obs. Du. gijben

ROGET THESAURUS

Gybe

Deviation

VB alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend, bend, curve, swerve, heel, bear off, gybe, wear, intervert, deflect, divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp, stray, straggle, sidle, diverge, tralineate, digress, wander, wind, twist, meander, veer, tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of, ramble, rove, drift, go astray, go adrift, yaw, dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for, shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about, waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way.

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