jib

A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.

• Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets.

Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.usually

To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.

The projecting arm of a crane.

A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.metonymically

An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.

A person's face.slang

• Whipping around I saw Herman with a stunned expression on his jib.

To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).

• “Who calls, who calls?” cried Essper; a shout was the only answer. There was no path, but the underwood was low, and Vivian took his horse, an old forester, across it with ease. Essper’s jibbed.
• Then he got fever, and had to be carried in a hammock slung under a pole. As he weighed sixteen stone I had no end of rows with the carriers. They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night—quite a mutiny.

To express reluctance; to balk.figuratively

• I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.'
• ‘You jibbed at the door yourself,’ Bert Penrith remarked. ‘What’s up?’

One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.

A stationary condition; a standstill.

Crystal meth.slanguncountable

The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.slang

• They needa’ watch they jibs.

A first-year student at the University of Dublin.Irelandarchaicslang

• Forgetting that the jibs, whom they insulted, were afterwards to grow into the influential men […]
• [I]n a healthy environment, young Mahoney might have taken the risk, both with University and, in part, with entering the Aula for the jibs dance.