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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).
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Muslim
The subduer
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Irish
Calf.
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Indian
The subduer
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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’.
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Spanish
Love.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.English : from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill).Irish (Galway) : Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó SÃoda (see Sheedy).Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.
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French English
Prosperous protector. A FrenchOld English name Eadmund, meaning rich or happy, and protection.
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Danish
, farmer, husbandman.
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Hindu, Indian
Very Strong
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Bengali, Indian
Eager; Clever
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American, Australian, Gaelic, Hebrew, Irish
Black-haired
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African, American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Hebrew, Irish
The Lord is Gracious
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Indian
Excellent
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African, American, Arabic, Australian, Danish, German, Indian, Persian, Sanskrit
Crown; To Mention; Short Form of Anastasia
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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].
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gaff
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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.
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An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
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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.
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.
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The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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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.
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The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
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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.
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A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
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That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
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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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
v. t.
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
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A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
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Same as Gaffle, 1.
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The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
v. t.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
imp. & p. p.
of Gaff