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- Gaff - n. - A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
- Gaff - n. - The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
- Gaff - n. - Same as Gaffle, 1.
- Gaff - v. t. - To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
- Gaff-topsail - n. - A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
- Gaffed - imp. & p. p. - of Gaff
- Gaffer - n. - An old fellow; an aged rustic.
- Gaffer - n. - A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.
- Gaffing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Gaff
- Gaffle - n. - An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
- Gaffle - n. - A lever to bend crossbows.
- Foresail - n. - The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
- Gaffle - n. - An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
- 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.
- Galiot - n. - A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
- 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 Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
- Throat - n. - That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
- 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.
- 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].
- Gaff-topsail - n. - A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
- Gaff - v. t. - To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.