Crossword-Solution: JIBS 4 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And away a couple of frigates were starting To race to Java with all sails set, Topgallants, and royals, and stunsails, and jibs, And wide moonsails; and the shining rails Were polished so bright they sparked in the sun.

Mellaire’s direction, were setting triangular sails, like jibs, between the masts, and there were so many that they overlapped one another.

Both these were of matting, and, with two jibs and a fore and aft sail astern of cotton canvas, completed our rig.

The large sails cannot be shifted round to go on the other tack without first hauling down the jibs, and the booms of the fore and aft sails have to be lowered and completely detached to perform the same operation.

They were all of one graceful shape and one size; they came with all sail set, taking the waning light like sunshine on their flying-jibs, and trailing each two dories behind them, with their seines piled in black heaps between the thwarts.