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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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]..

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

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

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