Jib-o'-jibSea Terms
A triangular sail carried on some merchant schooners which sets on the last stay forward of the foremast.
Jib-o'-jib to Jolly Jumpers
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Jib StaySea Terms
A stay forward the foremast on which the jib is set.
Jib TopsailSea Terms
A triangular sail which sets on a stay forward the foremast.
Jib TravelerSea Terms
The large iron ring that the tack of a cutter's jib is made fast to. The ring goes around the bowsprit, and runs in and out on the spar by means of an outhaul and an inhaul--this jib is always set flying.
Jibber the KibberSea Terms
To decoy a vessel ashore by exhibiting a ship's side light on the beach. The light is carried along the margin of the water, the man holding it giving a sinking and rising action to it as he walks along in imitation of a vessel's motion. A ship's captain seeing this light inshore considers that there is plenty of searoom, and in consequence his vessel may become stranded by entertaining a false idea as to his position.
JibeSea Terms
To shift the booms from one side of the vessel to the other in sailing; to bring the wind on what was the lee side, and allow the booms to swing across the deck and the sails to fill on the new tack.
JigSea Terms
An extra purchase made fast to one end of the throat and peak halliards. The bight of the halliards is rove through the blocks, and the two ends are led down on deck, one on each side of the mast. One of these ends is the regular hauling part, and the other end has a purchase to it which is called the jig.
JiggamareeSea Terms
A designation for an abortive contrivance, or an unseamanlike piece of work performed on board ship.
JiggerSea Terms
A handy-billy tackle used about decks; a sail that sets on a jigger-mast.
Jigger-MastSea Terms
The aftermost mast on a four-masted vessel; the small mast carried at the stern on yawls.
Jimmy SquarefootSea Terms
A sailor's name for the devil.
JockSea Terms
A name for a Scotch seaman.
Jockying-a-yardSea Terms
A sailor jockeys a yard when he sits on it with his legs dangling on either side.
Jog-the-looSea Terms
To work the pump handles.
JohnSea Terms
A sailor's name for dried fish.
John DoreySea Terms
The name of a fish.
Johnny CrapaudSea Terms
A term applied to French seamen, meaning Johnny Toad. The armorial bearings of France once had three toads. which were exchanged for the three flowers-de-luce, and it is undoubtedly from the former that the jocose term was derived.
Johnny NewcomeSea Terms
A term applied to a novice on shipboard. (See Johnny Raw.)
Johnny RawSea Terms
A sailor's term for a green hand on board ship. (See Johnny Newcome.)
Jolly BoatSea Terms
A small boat used for all kinds of work, such as for marketing, washing the ship round, etc. It is to a merchant vessel what a dingey is on board men-o'-war and yachts.
Jolly JumpersSea Terms
A name for the fancy sails which tradition tells us were carried on the very lofty ships of ye olden time. They were supposed to set above the moon-rakers, which in turn were set above the sky-scrapers.