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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..

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

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..

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

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

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]..

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..

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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