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Take punishment in good spirit. "He can really stand the gaff."
Noun. 1. Place of residence or work. E.g."My gaff is just around the corner." [1930s] 2. Place. E.g."It was all over the gaff but at least I had a week to clean it up."
Gaffer is slang for a boss. Gaffer is slang for an old man.Gaffer is slang for the chief electrician on a film set.
 Show, exhibition, fair "Penny Gaff" - Low, or vulgar theatre.
Penny gaff was th century slang for a popular music hall or theatre.
Gaff is slang for a place of residence. Gaff is slang for to cheat; hoax.Gaff is slang for foolish talk; nonsense.Gaff was th and th century slang for a fair, fairground or place of cheap entertainment.
n home. Rather a London-centric word: Why don’t we go back to my gaffe and skin up? The shorter word “gaff” (to make a foolish error) is the same in both U.K. and U.S. English.
n bloke in charge. Originally the foreman of a construction site, but can be used universally. In the film industry, the gaffer is the setÂ’s chief electrician, in charge of pretty much anything with wires attached to it. This may or may not be relevant.
Someones house or home. e.g. "Let's go around to your gaff and watch tv while your parents are out". Also used in the sense of a 'free gaff' - someones house when their parents are away, and all their friends can come over and cause havoc without parental supervision.
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n duct tape. Sort of. The heavy, slightly meshed sticky tape used to silence potential murder victims and to reliably and effectively attach small animals to tables. Unlike duct tape, gaffer tape is designed not to melt onto things, and is used extensively in the theatre and film industry. Probably derived from the fact that the Gaffer is the chief electrician on a film set.
(GAF-ful) verb, (past participle: gaffled) steal. “He gaffled some skrill from his mom.â€Â [Etym., African American]
1. Gaff rig: The spar that holds the upper edge of a four-sided fore-and-aft mounted sail. 2. Fishing gaff: A hook on a long pole to haul fish in. A gaff hook.
n 1. A house, building, or apartment, especially where one resides. 2. A trick or gimmick, especially one used in a swindle or to rig a game. 3. Harshness of treatment; abuse.tr.v. gaffed, gaffing, gaffs 1 . To take in or defraud; swindle. 2. To rig or fix in order to cheat: knew that the carnival games had been gaffed.
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v. t.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
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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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The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
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Same as Gaffle, 1.
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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.
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The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
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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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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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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
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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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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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That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
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A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
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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].
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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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