Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at jib.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Jib.

Examples

  • Makes it easier to tell uncle Jed from cousin Jib. rel by

    Sunday Scribblings-Eccentricity 2007

  • Jibál el-Safhah; the two blocks, south of the Wady Hamz, known as the Jibál el-Rál; and their neighbours still included in the

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Here the maritime heights, known as the Jibál ( "Mountains" of the) Tihámat-Balawiyyah (of "the Baliyy tribe"), recede from the sea, and become mere hills and hillocks; yet the continuity of the chain is never completely broken.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Jibál el-Safhah; the two blocks, south of the Wady Hamz, known as the Jibál el-Rál; and their neighbours still included in the

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • -- himself perhaps amongst the number: there he sat with a brain as burning, and a heart as excited, as though, instead of sipping his bohea beside a sea-coal fire, he was that instant trembling beneath the frown of Dr. Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one?

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • -- himself perhaps amongst the number: there he sat with a brain as burning, and a heart as excited, as though, instead of sipping his bohea beside a sea-coal fire, he was that instant trembling beneath the frown of Dr. Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one?

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839

  • Nova Jackson: Ejects! is the first episode of an ongoing series about a girl, her ship, and her cranky friend Jib Stone.

    Jodi Chamberlain: Sink or Swim Jodi Chamberlain 2011

  • It feels as though you have been in my heart forever, my dirty-faced little monkey boy, my chunkster, my Jib.

    To Jasper, On His First Birthday | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Nova Jackson: Ejects! is the first episode of an ongoing series about a girl, her ship, and her cranky friend Jib Stone.

    Jodi Chamberlain: Sink or Swim Jodi Chamberlain 2011

  • “Like one of those old strays Jib Gentry was breeding from the stock they trapped up near Chibougamou.”

    The Warden 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.