jibe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. 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.
2. v. To cause (a sail) to jibe.
3. n. The act of jibing.
4. v. Informal To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.
5. v. Variant of gibe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Nautical, to cause (a fore-and-aft sail) to swing over to the other side when the wind is aft or on the quarter.
2. Nautical, to change from one tack to the other without going about; shift a fore-and-aft Bail from one side to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter.
3. To agree; be in harmony or accord; work together: as, the two plans did not seem to jibe.
4. n. See gibe.
5. A less common form of jib.

Wiktionary

1. n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
2. n. nautical A manoeuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind.
3. n. nautical sudden sweep of the boom of a sailboat across from one side of the boat to the other.
4. v. intransitive, nautical To perform a jibe
5. v. intransitive To agree.
6. v. transitive, nautical To cause to execute a jibe

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Naut.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See gybe.
2. v. (Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See jibe, v. t., and gybe.
3. v. colloq. To agree; to harmonize.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. shift from one side of the ship to the other
2. n. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
3. v. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics