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Definition of Gybes
1. gybe [v] - See also: gybe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gybes
| gweipo gweipos gwerz gwihabaite gwine gwiniad gwiniads gwyniad gwyniads gyal | gyall gyalls gyals gybe gybed gybes (current term) gybing gyeld gyelds gyil | gyils gylanic gylanies gylany gylden gyle gym gym-diol gym bunnies |
Literary usage of Gybes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Exposition of Yacht Racing Rules: Customs & Practices Observed in Match by Dixon Kemp (1898)
"A MARK ON OPPOSITE gybes. The following case occurred at Plymouth in 1892.
Two yachts, A and B, are running for a mark with main booms on opposite sides. ..."
2. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century.: Consisting by John Nichols (1817)
"Convert his gybes to graces. P. 297, 8. after, 't would be a SIGHT indeed The
two oldest quartos, which the Editor pretends to have collated, add, ..."
3. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"... rum-maunder in one day, And like an Abram-cove couldst pray, Yet pass with
gybes well ... VIII To thy bugher and thy skew, Filch and gybes I bid adieu, ..."
4. A [devil] of a Trip, Or, The Log of the Yacht Champlain by John Armoy Knox (1888)
"Yachting is very enjoyable, I know, and I like it, but there is a sort of monotony
about dodging the foresail when it gybes to port, and dodging it again ..."
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