Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gybe

Gybe (jīb) , noun and verb

See Gibe.

Gybe (jībd) , verb, transitive and intransitive

[See Jibe.]

(Nautical) 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.