jib boom

Martingale: A short spar under the bowsprit, used to give more spread to the stays that set the bowsprit or jib-boom down.

Having thus lost the benefit of her head sail, she rounded to, and her jib-boom came in contact with our fore rigging.

In a moment the jib-boom of the English vessel ran over the poop-deck of the American ship.

He was mending the jib-boom, and lost his hold and fell into the sea.

As he laid us athwart-hawse, or as we swung by him, our jib-boom ran into his mizzen-rigging.