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

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..

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

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Gablock :: Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock..

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

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

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

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

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

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