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- (transitive, nautical) To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, nautical) To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
- (intransitive, nautical) Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
- (by extension, obsolete) Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.
- [Noun]
- (nautical) The act of gybing.
- (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
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