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Peak :: Peak (v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular..

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

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

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

Vang :: Vang (n.) A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

Gammer :: Gammer (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man..

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

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

Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting..

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

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

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

Gaff-topsail :: Gaff-topsail (n.) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

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.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish..

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

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..

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

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

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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