"jibstay" meaning in English

See jibstay in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: jibstays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} jibstay (plural jibstays)
  1. (nautical) A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-jibstay-en-noun-Zx~SH7U4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jibstays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jibstay (plural jibstays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 40, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached"
      ],
      "id": "en-jibstay-en-noun-Zx~SH7U4",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "stay",
          "stay"
        ],
        [
          "forestay",
          "forestay"
        ],
        [
          "jib",
          "jib"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jibstay"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jibstays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jibstay (plural jibstays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 40, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "stay",
          "stay"
        ],
        [
          "forestay",
          "forestay"
        ],
        [
          "jib",
          "jib"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jibstay"
}

Download raw JSONL data for jibstay meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.