Translations

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to change tack with the wind behind:

Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive)Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.

    kreuzen

  2. (transitive)To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.

  3. (intransitive)Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.

  4. (broadly, obsolete)Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.

More definitions
  • shift from one side of the ship to the other

Origin

Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, g

Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa.

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Forms

gybes, gybing, gybed, gybed

regular · Lesson

Base formgybe · to gybe
3rd person singulargybes
Present participlegybing
Past simplegybed
Past participlegybed

Tenses

gybe · gybed · will gybe · have gybed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygybe
he, she, itgybes

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gybed
he, she, ithas gybed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gybe

Past simpleLesson

all personsgybed

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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