jib-guyn. 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
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1868 A. W. KinglakeInvasion of Crimea (1877) IV. xiii. 390 When the movement of each ship had ceased, the jib~guys of the two were..touching.