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gybe

  [jahyb] verb (used without object), verb (used with object), gybed, gyb⋅ing, noun Nautical
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jibe

1  [jahyb] verb, jibed, jib⋅ing, noun Nautical
–verb (used without object)
1. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
2. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cause to jibe.
–noun
4. the act of jibing.
Also, gibe, gybe, jib, jibb.

Origin:
1685–95; var. of gybe < D gijben, more commonly gijpen
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gybe   (jīb)   
v.   & n.
Variant of jibe1.
jibe 1 also gybe   (jīb)   
v.   jibed also gybed, jib·ing also gyb·ing, jibes also gybes

v.   intr.
To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind so as to sail on the opposite tack.
v.   tr.
To cause (a sail) to jibe.
n.  The act of jibing.

[Alteration (perhaps influenced by jib1) of gybe, from obsolete Dutch gijben.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
jibe [dʒɑɪb]

  1. in.
    to agree; to be in harmony. (See also track.) : Your story just doesn't jibe with the facts.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

jibe 
"agree, fit," 1813, of unknown origin, perhaps a figurative extension of earlier jib (v.) "shift a sail or boom" (see jib). OED, however, suggests a phonetic variant of chime, as if meaning "to chime in with, to be in harmony."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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