Definition of "gybes" [gybes]

• Plural form of gybe. (noun)

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• "He useth to make counterfaite licenses which they call gybes, and sets to seales, in their language called Jarkes."
• "It's going to be windy with quite a lot of gybes to perform."
• "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."