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Definition
jib
(jibs, jibbing, jibbed)
1.
The jib is the small triangular sail that is sometimes used at the front of a sailing boat.
N-COUNT: usu the N in sing
2.
If you jib at something, you are unwilling to do it or to accept it. (OLD-FASHIONED)
...those who jib at the idea of selling their land.
= balk
VERB: V at n/-ing, also V
