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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.

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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