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jibboom

NOUN
  1. a spar that extends the bowsprit

How To Use jibboom In A Sentence

  • But, I say, I do know something of yachting, and that isn't the way to brace up the marling-spike to the fokesell yard with the main jibboom three points in a wind with some East in it! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891
  • We also slept in hammocks, stood lookout watch at the end of the jibboom and furled topgallant sails during beautiful evening sunsets.
  • Her fore topmasts and yards, studdingsail booms and yards, jibbooms and entire mizzen masts were shot away.
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