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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GY'BING, ppr. Shifting a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.]
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Jeering or ridiculing.
