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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..

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..

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..

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

Gaffer :: Gaffer (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic.

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

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..

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

Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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