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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Spencer :: 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]..

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

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.) Same as Gaffle, 1..

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

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

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

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

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

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