Meaning of Jeer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gear; a tackle.
2. A mocking remark or reflection.
3. An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
   in-plural

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Examples

“1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5, Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.”

“In the nineteenth century, 1811 to be exact, the jeers were unrove after the yard was slung, the weight of the yard being borne by chain slings. The jeers used then were a treble block lashed to the mast head through a hole in the center of the top”

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