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Spar :: Spar (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff..

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.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.

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

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

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

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

Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast..

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

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

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc..

Gaffed :: Gaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Gaf.

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

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

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

Throat :: Throat (n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.

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

Gaffing :: Gaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaf.

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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