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

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

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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

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.

Peak :: 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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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