Jib (disambiguation)

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Jib can refer to:

• Jib, a triangular sail at the front of a sailing boat
• Jib (camera), a boom device with a camera on one end
• Jib (village), in the West Bank
• Jib, Iran, in Qazvin Province
• The horizontal or near-horizontal member from which the load is hung in many types of crane, usually attached to a vertical tower or inclined boom (in other jib-less designs such as derricks, the load is hung directly from a boom; however, in the specific case of a derrick, the boom is often anomalously called a jib!)
• A snowboarding term meaning 'to grind'
• JIB, 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
• 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.

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