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n.
That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
n.
A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
v. t.
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
n.
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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.
v. t.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
n.
The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
n.
The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
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.
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].
imp. & p. p.
of Gaff
n.
A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
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.
n.
Same as Gaffle, 1.
n.
An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gaff
n.
A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
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 Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
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.
v. t.
To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
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