• (RP, GA) IPA: /dʒaɪb/

gybe (gybes, present participle gybing; past and past participle gybed)

1. (transitive, nautical) To shift#Verb|shift a fore-and-aft sail#Noun|sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sail#Verb|sailing before the wind#Noun|wind.
2. (intransitive, nautical) Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom#Noun|boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
   • 1719 April 24, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor […], OCLC 15864594 ↗; 3rd edition, London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor […], 1719, OCLC 838630407 ↗, page 271 ↗:

     {...}} I had my Man Friday to teach as to what belong'd to the Navigation of my Boat; for though he knew very well how to paddle a Canoe, he knew nothing what belong'd to a Sail and a Rudder, and was the moſt amaz'd when he ſaw me work the Boat too and again in the Sea by the Rudder, and how the Sail gyb'd, and fill'd this Way or that Way, as the Courſe we ſail'd chang'd: {{...}

3. (intransitive, nautical) Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind cross#Verb|crossing behind the vessel.
4. (by extension, obsolete) Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when face#Verb|faced with a course of action, plan#Noun|plan, or proposal.

• French: empanner, virer lof pour lof
• German: kreuzen
• Portuguese: cambar

gybe (plural gybes)

1. (nautical) The act of gybing.
   1. A sudden shift#Noun|shift of a sail#Noun|sail's angle#Noun|angle, or a sudden change#Noun|change in the direction that a vessel is sail#Verb|sailing in.
   2. A manoeuvre in which the stern#Noun|stern of a sailing vessel cross#Verb|crosses the wind#Noun|wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep#Noun|sweep of the boom#Noun|boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
2. (by extension) A sudden change in approach#Noun|approach or direction; vacillation.

• French: empannage

• French: empannage
• Portuguese: cambada

gybe (plural gybes)

1. Alternative spelling of jibe

gybe (gybes, present participle gybing; past and past participle gybed)

1. Alternative spelling of jibe