A sidelong motion; a sidelong blow.
1843. The broad Potomac, stretched tranquilly onwards, undisturbed save by the occasional jibe of the boom, or lazy creak of the rudder of some craft, reflected with her white sails upon its surface.—A. E. Silliman, ‘Gallop among American Scenery,’ p. 5.
1851. After an untold number of stumbles over old windfalls, and jibes from the limbs, knots, and protruding boughs of trees, we reached [the log cabin].—John S. Springer, ‘Forest Life,’ p. 66 (N.Y.).
