Jib (disambiguation)

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Jib is a triangular sail at the front of a sailing boat.

Jib may refer to a wide range of meanings:

Mechanical

A Jib or Gib arm, sometimes diminutively called a gibbet (meaning forked stick)
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 behavior in nautical slang is to like or dislike the cut of his/her jib

See also

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