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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gybe /dʒʌɪb/ (US jibe) Sailing

▶verb change course by swinging the sail across a following wind.

■ (of a sail or boom) swing across the wind.

▶noun an act of gybing.

– origin C17: from obs. Du. gijben.

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