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- noun Plural form of
gybe .
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Examples
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He useth to make counterfaite licenses which they call gybes, and sets to seales, in their language called Jarkes.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Positions were swapped thick and fast during races as people had swims, botched kite hoists, kite drops, gybes and tacks.
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Positions were swapped thick and fast during races as people had swims, botched kite hoists, kite drops, gybes and tacks.
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Despite Albeau dominating race seven, Dunkerbeck gritted his teeth following a less than ideal start, to charge his way through the fleet like a lightning bolt, gaining places down every run and through all of his gybes.
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Positions were swapped thick and fast during races as people had swims, botched kite hoists, kite drops, gybes and tacks.
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However, the trajectory isn't likely to be direct, initially at least, as the giant trimaran is set to cover a little more ground to the North in order to totally extract herself from the high pressure of the Azores, before swooping on Brittany with the help of a few gybes.
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It's going to be windy with quite a lot of gybes to perform.
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Positions were swapped thick and fast during races as people had swims, botched kite hoists, kite drops, gybes and tacks.
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In order not to get shaken up by the waves, which will increase in size over the coming hours, Franck Cammas and his navigator Stan Honey have planned to put in several gybes to stay to the South of this disturbed system.
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Positions were swapped thick and fast during races as people had swims, botched kite hoists, kite drops, gybes and tacks.
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