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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Gybed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Gybing}.] [See {Jibe}.] (Naut.)
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other -- said of
the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered
off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side [Also
{jibe}.]
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