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Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) A lever to bend crossbows.

Gaffer :: Gaffer (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.

Gablock :: Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock..

Gaff :: Gaff (n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

Driver :: Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail..

Earing :: Earing (n.) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

Ringtail :: Ringtail (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.

Shandygaff :: Shandygaff (n.) A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.

Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..

Giffgaff :: Giffgaff (n.) Mutial accommodation; mutual giving.

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

Gaff :: Gaff (n.) Same as Gaffle, 1..

Catboat :: Catboat (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix..

Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc..

Gaffer :: Gaffer (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic.

Gaff :: Gaff (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon..

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