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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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]..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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