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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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