AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for GAFF
What is the name meaning of GAFF. Phrases containing GAFF
See name meanings and uses of GAFF!
What is the name meaning of GAFF. Phrases containing GAFF
See name meanings and uses of GAFF!GAFF
GAFF
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used iron hooks or crooks, Old French, Middle English gaffe.German : from a derivative of the stem geb- (see Gaffke).
Boy/Male
Irish
Calf.
Boy/Male
Muslim
The subduer
Boy/Male
Indian
The subduer
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Gifford.Probably a respelling of German Gaffert, a habitational name from Gaffert near Köslin, Brandenburg, or from a personal name formed with Middle High German gate ‘fellow’, ‘companion’.
GAFF
GAFF
GAFF
GAFF
GAFF
GAFF
GAFF
n.
A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
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 arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
n.
Same as Gaffle, 1.
n.
The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
v. t.
To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gaff
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.
That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
n.
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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 light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
n.
The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
v. t.
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
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].
n.
An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
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.
n.
A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
imp. & p. p.
of Gaff
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.