Word: jib
Category: jib
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Synonyms: jib
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: jib
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german
Translations:
klüver, fock, widerstreben, scheuern
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french
Translations:
effaroucher, foc, rechigner, flèche
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russian
Translations:
артачиться, стрела, кливер, переносить, упираться, укосина, перекидываться
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czech
Translations:
plašit
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polish
Translations:
płoszyć, kliwer, wysięgnik, wzdrygać, wzbraniać, opierać
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hungarian
Translations:
darugém, pofázmány, darukar, darugerenda
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ukrainian
Translations:
євреї
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estonian
Translations:
kraananool, kliiver
The meaning and "use of": jib
noun
- a triangular staysail set forward of the forwardmost mast. - I have seen others opt for a cutter-type arrangement leaving the small jib and adding a genoa.
- the projecting arm of a crane. - The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe.
- (of an animal, especially a horse) stop and refuse to go on. - he jibbed at the final fence
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