Jib (disambiguation)
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Jib may refer to a wide range of meanings:
Mechanical
- A Jib or Gib arm sometimes diminutively called a gibbet (meaning forked stick)
- Jib, a triangular sail at the front of a sailing boat
- Jib (camera), a boom device with a camera on one end
- A wedge used with a cotter
- In neoclassical architecture a Jib Door or Jib Window is type of portal similar to a Dutch Door. However, the window is usually of a normal proportion and the door underneath is subtly built and flush with the wall.
Places
- JIB, IATA airport code for Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport
- Hajib, Iran settlement
- Jib (village), in the West Bank
Colloquially
- JIB is an acronym for Latin jus in bello, one of the two parts of the laws of war, or Law of Armed Conflict
- Canadian slang for methamphetamine
- A castrated male cat or ferret
- A snow-sports term meaning 'to grind'
- A person's behaviour in nautical slang is to like or dislike the cut of his/her jib
See also
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