jibn.1
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ 1.
a. Nautical. A triangular stay-sail stretching from the outer end of the jib-boom to the fore-topmast head in large ships, and from the bowsprit to the mast-head in smaller craft. flying jib, a second sail of similar shape set before the jib on the flying jib-boom at jib-boom n. (but c1700–1750 applied to the only jib of large vessels); in some large vessels more jibs, in extreme cases as many as six, are carried, the outermost being the jib of jibs: see quot. 1867.‘No Tudor ship carried anything in the form of a fore-sail or jib. It was not till long afterwards that any nation adopted them for square-rigged vessels—a fact that is very remarkable, since they were certainly used by small craft at the end of the 16th century.’ (J. Corbett Successors of Drake (1900) 424.) ‘In 1688 jibs were part of the ordinary stores at Woolwich, and must therefore have been used in the large ships before that date.’ (M. Oppenheim.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay
jib1661
jib-sail1751
fore-stay1753
headstay1805
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of
marabut1622
flying jib1711
storm-jiba1827
spitfire-jib1858
jib topsail1866
reaching foresail1901
reacher1903
jumbo1912
Yankee1912
Yankee jib1912
Genoa1932
Genoa jib1932
slave1934
quad1937
slave jib1948
masthead genoa1958
1661 Inventory Swallow Ketch (S. P. Dom. Chas. II. xxxv. 10. 1) One new Gibb..One ould Gibb.
1694 Acct. Stores sent to Streights Fleet 31 July in Navy Board Lett. XXIX. 834 For preserving the sailes—Jibbs Two, Mizen Tops11 i.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 117 There is another Sail call'd a flying Gib.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 16 Her flying Jyb loose.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 280 My Fore-sail and Jibb were patched out of the Pieces of the Main-Sail.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 140 Those [sails] which are not bent to the Yards, are, the Flying Jibb, Fore, Fore-top, Main..and Mizon Top-mast Stay Sails.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Before the mast is a foresail, a jib, and a flying jib.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Jib of Jibs, a sixth jib on the bowsprit, only known to flying-kitemen: the sequence being—storm, inner, outer, flying, spindle, jib of jibs.
1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 53 The jib swung loose in the sudden gale.
b. the cut of one's jib (colloquial): one's personal appearance, countenance, or look; see cut n.2 17c.Originally a sailor's figure of speech, suggested by the prominence and characteristic form of the jib of a ship.
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1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 28 If she disliked what the sailor calls the cut of their jibb.
1823 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) V. 144 Their likeability, which depends something upon the cut of their jib.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. ii. 20 I see you're a sailor by the cut of your jib.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iv. xxiii. 366 Not know an Avenel! We've all the same cut of the jib—have not we, father?
1881 R. Buchanan God & Man ii. iii I like the cut of your jib less than ever.
1896 G. N. Boothby In Strange Company ii. iv. 48/1 I like the cut of your jib, or you wouldn't be sitting there opposite me.
2. dialect. The under lip (in to hang the jib). Also, The mouth, face, or nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
visurec1400
physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips > lower
sublabe1577
underlip1669
jiba1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Jib, the under-lip. Of a whimpering child it is said ‘he hangs his jib’.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. i. 2 They cock up their jibs and ride along with a ‘find any fault with either me or my horse, if you can’ sort of air.
1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 255 (Lancash. dial.) Cock up thy jib, an' let's have another smeawtch, an' then I'se goo whoam.
Compounds
jib-down-haul n. a rope used to haul down the jib.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sails
sail-ropec1275
wheel-rope1485
jib-halyard1726
jib-down-haul1825
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 54 While some to Let the anchor go prepare, The slack Jib-down-haul in the Waste they bear.
jib-guy n. a stout rope which supports the jib-boom.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing bowsprit or jib-boom
martingale1794
back-rope1840
gaub-line1841
jib-guy1868
1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (1877) IV. xiii. 390 When the movement of each ship had ceased, the jib~guys of the two were..touching.
jib-halyard n. the halyard for raising and lowering the jib.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sails
sail-ropec1275
wheel-rope1485
jib-halyard1726
jib-down-haul1825
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 169 So I unreev'd the..Main Haliards, and Jibb Haliards, and bent them.
jib-head n. an iron fastened to the head of a Jib which has been shortened at the top.
jib-headed adj. shaped like a jib, said of a topsail.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > of specific shape
shoal1688
swallow-tailed1794
leg of mutton1848
swallow-winged1859
jib-headed1861
1861 Times 16 Aug. The Christabel had a jib-headed topsail up, and completed her race with much less labour than her rival had done.
1881 Standard 22 June 3/7 All having jibheaded topsails and whole mainsails set.
jib-header n. a topsail shaped like a jib.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topsail > gaff jackyard topsails
gaff-topsail1794
jackyard topsail1881
jackyarder1884
club-topsail1886
jib-header1899
1899 Daily News 19 July 5/7 The Britannia..substituted a jackyarder for a jibheader.
jib-iron n. = jib-traveller n.
jib-netting n. a triangular netting fixed under the jib-boom to hold the jib when temporarily hauled down and to prevent men from falling into the sea while furling, etc. the jib.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay
jib1661
jib-sail1751
fore-stay1753
headstay1805
1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 268 Lying too, with her Gib Sail hauled to windward, and her Mizzen Sail set.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 36 In this situation the jibsail was blown to pieces.
jib-sheet n. one of the ropes by which the jib is trimmed, stretching from its clew to the bows of the ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace
sheet1336
swing-rope1336
shoot1405
mainbrace1485
mainsheet1485
top-sheet1485
smite1494
tailing-rope1495
tail-rope1495
brace1626
stern-sheets1626
trimmers1630
fore-sheet1669
jib-sheet1825
boom-sheet1836
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 51 Starboard the helm, the slack Jib-sheet haul Aft.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. viii. 352 In a minute the jibsheet was again hauled over to leeward, and away she was like an arrow, crowding all sail.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) iii. 59 If under sail and about to tack, let fly the jib-sheet.
jib-stay n. the stay on which the jib is set.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > stay > specific
head ropec1295
fore-stay1373
mainstay1485
sheep's feet1530
forehand1609
backstay1626
jib-stay1752
bobstay1759
breast backstay1769
sciatic stay1794
fore-topgallant-stay1805
funnel-stays1846
belly-stay-
1752 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Ship (Plate) Flying Jibb Stay and Sails.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 48 Let go the jibstay.
jib topsail n. (see quot. 1961).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of
marabut1622
flying jib1711
storm-jiba1827
spitfire-jib1858
jib topsail1866
reaching foresail1901
reacher1903
jumbo1912
Yankee1912
Yankee jib1912
Genoa1932
Genoa jib1932
slave1934
quad1937
slave jib1948
masthead genoa1958
1866 Capt. Keay Jrnl. in B. Lubbock China Clippers (1914) App. H. p. xxii Again bent the spare flying-jib for a jib topsail set on fore-royal stay well up.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 411 Jib topsail.
1892 Rudder Sept. 202 The Princess had her jib topsail hoisted.
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 92/2 Jib-topsail, a light jib set aloft in a similar manner to other head sails. It is hoisted on the outer of the head stays with its tack well up above the jib-boom instead of being fast to it.
1929 A. J. Villiers Falmouth for Orders 219 There were rumours that the captain intended to bend royal-stays'ls and a jib-tops'l, and a water-sail under the bowsprit.
1936 B. M. Adams Ships & Women xi. 239 While Pat O'Brien went out to the boom end to furl the jib topsail I stood on the forecastle head.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 123 Jib topsail, a light triangular sail, set above the jib; it is hanked to the topmast stay and sometimes called ‘jib o' jib’.
jib-traveller n. (see quot. 1794).
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 179 The Jib~traveller is a circular iron hoop, with a hook and shackle, used to haul out the tack of the jib.
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jibn.2
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ The projecting arm of a crane; also applied to the boom of a derrick.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > parts of
crane-line1466
ram's head1611
crane-wheel1669
ram-head1686
gibbet1730
calliper1765
jib1765
outrigger1835
clutch1874
crab1874
gabbard1952
spreader1957
lifting beam1963
1765 J. Ferguson in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 24 This crane..might be built in a room eight feet in width; the gib being placed on the outside of the room.
1804 Naval Chron. 12 116 Mr. I. Bramah has invented a new jib.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 284 The jib, or gibbet, as it is called, from a resemblance to that machine, is a triangular frame of wood, one side being perpendicular, and supported on pivots at the top and bottom, so that the whole moves round on these as a vertical axis of motion.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 230 The projection or radius of the jib of these cranes is 32 feet.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 688/1 The jib or movable spar of the derrick is hinged to and near the foot of the post, its top being held by a chain which passes over pulleys to a winch on the post, so that the inclination of the jib may be adjusted as required.
1895 Mod. Steam Engine 56 The jib is adjustable at any angle, and the crane is made to hoist, lower and turn round in either direction by steam.
Compounds
jib-beam, jib-pole; jib-crane n. a crane fitted with a jib. jib-frame n. ‘the upright frame at the sides of a marine-engine, connecting the cylinder, condenser, and the framing’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of
quay crane1821
balance-crane1824
well crane1836
water crane1849
jenny1861
jib-crane1873
stacker1875
Titan1876
transfer-elevatora1884
whip-crane1883
Goliath1888
jigger1891
wharf crane1893
floating crane1903
tower crane1906
hammer-headed crane1908
portal crane1908
hammer-head crane1910
luffing crane1913
cherry-picker1945
stacker crane1959
monotower1963
Transtainer1964
portainer1966
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 222 Hung on a pulley, at the end of the gib-beam.
1873 Daily News 17 Sept. 7/1 The stone was lifted up by a jib crane for the purpose of placing the mortar.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 6/1 A powerful electric travelling jib crane running on a large elevated track controlling the entire length.
1898 Daily News 17 May 2/6 The jib poles did not go against the brick pier.
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jibn.3
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ 1. A jibbing horse, a jibber.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > refusing to go on > that refuses to go on
jib1843
jibber1847
planter1863
1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xv. 317 The mare was a rank jib in single harness.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 181/2 Frequently young horses that will not work in cabs—such as ‘jibs’—are sold to the horse-slaughterers as useless.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream iv. 43 Jack was borne off by two jibs and a bolter in the Warroo mail.
2. The state of being at a standstill.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff > complete check or impasse > fact or condition of being stuck or at impasse
sticking1564
set1613
dead set1806
nonplussation1833
stickfast1835
deadlocking1882
jib1893
constipation1917
1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xx. 134 My picture is at present in a state of jib, owing to a child's head in it which I cannot get right.
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jibn.4
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ slang.
A first-year student at Trinity College, Dublin. ‘Unknown to the present generation of TCD students (1973).’ ( O.E.D. Suppl.)
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student
puny1548
freshman1583
puisne1592
freshwomana1627
bejan1642
nib1655
jib1827
greeny1834
fox1839
freshie1845
rat1850
buttery Benjie1854
pennal1854
yellow-beak1865
fresher1875
yellow-neb1879
yearling1908
frosh1915
1827 in J. E. Walsh Trinity College in 19th Cent. (1901) 21 About a hundred young jibbs..forced the gates and sallied out into the streets.
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xiii. 99 During all this melée tournament, I perceived that the worthy jib as he would be called in the parlance of Trinity, Mr. Cudmore, remained perfectly silent.
1902 W. M. Dixon Trinity Coll., Dublin vi. 137 It was a proud thing for a ‘gib’ to present himself to a crowd round the door, hear many a cry, ‘Make way for the gentleman of the College!’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 And the Trinity jibs in their mortarboards.
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jibv.1
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ Nautical.
1. transitive. To pull (a sail or yard) round from one side of the vessel to the other, as in tacking, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > gybe (a sail or yard)
jib1691
gybe1899
1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 126 The place and fitting of the Shrowd so as to make way for the gibbing of the Yards.
1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole I. ii. iii. 217 In changing tacks, they have only occasion to shift or jib round the sail.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge i. 13 It could be hooked, and unhooked as need were, when she tacked, and it became necessary to jib the sail.
1865 Examiner 18 Mar. 163 A movement of the boys when the boat was jibbing her sail may have upset her.
2.
a. intransitive. Of a sail, etc.: To shift or swing round from one side of a vessel to the other; = gybe v. i.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > gybe (of sail or boom)
gybe1693
jib1719
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 22 The Boom gib'd over the Top of the Cabbin.
1804 Naval Chron. 11 169 The sail gibbed, the boat upset.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 199 I saw the Boston schooner's main-sail jib.
b. transferred. Of other things: To swing round.
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the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > turn round or to face a direction > turn (as) on a pivot or swing round
turnOE
revirec1485
virec1485
circumlate1578
swing1769
slew1823
swivel1846
pivot1883
jib1891
1891 Daily News 23 July 7/2 The arm of the crane could swing round, or gibb, on each side, and deliver the stone on a truck.
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jibv.2
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/ 1. intransitive. Of a horse or other animal in harness: To stop and refuse to go on; to move restively backwards or sideways instead of going on; to balk stubbornly.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to go on
jib1811
to shut up1859
1811 J. Austen Let. 25 Apr. (1995) 184 The horses actually gibbed on this side of Hyde Park Gate.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ii. 33 Miss Grizzy Oldbuck was sometimes apt to jibb when he pulled the reins too tight.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Jib, to start suddenly and violently aside, generally from the collar; and to refuse to draw or go forward. It is said of a horse metaphorically from the jibbing of a sail.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. ii. 78 The horses have jibbed, and will not stir.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 48 In the best regulated teams it must happen that some one will occasionally start, gib, and bolt.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. To stop short in some action; to refuse to proceed or advance; to draw back, back out.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity
to break offc1340
persist1563
check1635
to stop short1727
to pull in1780
jib1812
stall1923
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > balk or jib
balk1481
jib1812
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 139 Nanny jibbed a bit in the twelfth round.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Mar. (1941) 35 I had settled to finish the review, when, behold..I jibb'd.
1845 W. Empson Let. 11 Apr. in Select. from Corr. M. Napier (1879) 487 Many Whigs, however, will jib from fear of their constituents.
1894 E. Sullivan Woman 110 When there is no compulsion there is no gibbing.
b. To start aside; to shy at.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > start or spring back
jib1882
1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ vi. 123 The boys taking the parts of ladies jibbing away from their partners in a highly unlady-like fashion.
1896 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes xv There are people who jib at you still, you know: when once you were one of us, they wouldn't dare.
Derivatives
jibbing n. and adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > refusing to go on
jibbing1844
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > refusing to go on
restiffc1390
jibbing1844
1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury III. i. 6 The playful vagaries of jibbing-horses.
1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xv. 247 A succession of jibbings and rearings.
1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) x. 363 A backward swain is like a jibbing horse.
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jibv.3
/dʒɪb/, U.S. /dʒɪb/, Scottish English /dʒɪb/ Scottish.
transitive. To fleece; to strip; to milk closely, drain to the dregs.
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > fleece
milk?1531
shred1548
suck1558
shear1570
fleece1575
shave1606
unfleece1609
jib1728
skin1819
sweat1847
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > draw last milk from
stroke1538
strip?1610
jib1728
strap1854
strop1884
to milk out1950
1728 A. Ramsay Vision viii Our trechour peirs thair tyranns treit, Quha jyb them, and thair substance eit.
Derivatives
jibbings n. the last strainings of milk from a cow; afterings.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > last strainings of milk
afterings1688
jibbings1824
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > last drainings
strokings1602
streakings1658
afterings1688
stripping1781
strapping1806
jibbings1824
hind milk1895
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Jibb, to milk closely. Jibbings, the last milk that can be drawn out of a cow's udder.
1828 T. Carlyle Let. 10 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) IV. 381 Jane (the lesser)..furnishes butter and afterings (jibbings) for tea.
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