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

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

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.) A lever to bend crossbows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Topsail :: Topsail (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship..

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

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..

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

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