Crossword clues for gaff
gaff
- Thing hard to stand
- Stand the ___ (bear up)
- Fishing spear
- Giant fishhook
- Fisherman's barbed spear
- Not quite all slip home
- Hook used to land fish
- Sail support
- Iron fishhook
- Fisherman's handled hook
- Big fishhook
- Fish-landing pole
- Handled hook
- Whaler's hook
- It hooks big fish
- Hooked fishing-stick
- Fishhook with a handle
- Fisherman's friend?
- Fisher's large hook
- Big fishing hook
- Tuna helper?
- Spar supporting a sail
- My nickname in elementary school; or, perform a moviemaking task
- Hook used for the one that got away
- Hook used for big fish
- Fisherman's landing hook
- Fisherman's iron hook
- Fisherman's implement
- Angler's handled hook
- Fishing hook
- Angler's hook
- Iron hook
- Butcher's hook
- Kind of sail
- Fisherman's hook
- Fish hook
- Iron hook with a handle
- Hook with a handle
- Captain's hook
- Fishing hook with a handle
- Hook on a handle
- Spur on a climbing iron
- Ship's spar
- Sailor's hook
- Large fishing hook
- Large iron hook
- Bad slip
- Heavy fishing hook
- A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- An iron hook with a handle
- Used for landing large fish
- Large hook
- Harsh criticism
- Angler's spear
- Piscator's hook
- Barbed spear
- Hook for landing fish
- Angler's hook or spear
- Fish-landing hook
- Hoax
- Fishing adjunct
- Large fishhook
- Hook for lifting heavy fish
- Hook for landing large fish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaff \Gaff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gaffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gaffing.] To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
Gaff \Gaff\ (g[a^]f), n. [OE. gaffe, F. gaffe an iron hook with which seamen pull great fishes into their ships; cf. Ir. gaf, gafa hook; perh. akin to G. gabel fork, Skr. gabhasti. Cf. Gaffle, Gable.]
A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
(Naut.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
Same as Gaffle, 1.
--Wright.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"iron hook," c.1300, gaffe, from Old French gaffe "boat hook" (see gaffe). Specifically of the hook on a fishing spear from 1650s. As a type of spar from 1769. Related: gaff-hook.
"talk," 1812, in phrase blow the gaff "spill a secret," of uncertain origin. OED points out Old English gafspræc "blasphemous or ribald speech," and Scottish gaff "loud, rude talk" (by 1825). Compare gaffe.\n
"cheap music hall or theater; place of amusement for the lowest classes," 1812, British slang, earlier "a fair" (1753), of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. 2 A minor error or faux pas. 3 A trick or con. 4 (context British Irish slang English) A place of residence. 5 (context nautical English) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail. 6 A garment worn to hide the genitals by some trans people. n. 1 A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. 2 A minor error or faux pas. 3 A trick or con. 4 (context British Irish slang English) A place of residence. 5 (context nautical English) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail. 6 A garment worn to hide the genitals by some trans people. vb. 1 To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. 2 To cheat or hoax Etymology 2
n. rough or harsh treatment; criticism
WordNet
n. a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
Wikipedia
Gaff may refer to:
Usage examples of "gaff".
With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about.
I shouted, as I got a gloved hand on the steel trace and drew the fish gently towards where Chubby waited with the stainless-steel hook at the gaff held ready.
One of those Benton boys was at the wheel, and before I knew what he was doing, the other was out on the gaff with the end of the new downhaul, trying to reeve it through its block.
Dr Eschel Rhoodie, the Information Secretary, took refuge in Switzerland, and appeared on television threatening to blow the gaff.
As she had opened the town of Porto Ferrajo several minutes before she was herself seen from the Feu Follet, an ensign was hanging from the end of her gaff, though there was not sufficient air to open its folds, in a way to let the national character of the stranger be known.
He could contact Moyle before the meeting and blow the gaff tell him everything he knew, being a good company man and all that jazz.
Thonolan had poked his head in the tent earlier, showing him a couple of gaffs, but Jondalar had waved him off, wrapped his arm around Noria, and gone back to sleep.
Birrell seems tae chill oot in the gaff, even before wi git the radge aw pilled up.
Quiplid ducked for the low slash that would cripple him, Ryne swung the gaff hard.
Clem gaffed it, pulled it close, grabbed ahold of the pot-warp with both hands, gave a good yank, and fell over backward.
Gaff or paddle in hand, the Aleut leaps from rock to rock, or dashes among the tumbling beds of tossed kelp.
Only the binger guy was sore because his gaff worker blew and made him look worse than the suckers.
Mansfield Sothern collapses in his dressing room a few minutes before the curtain is to rise, and, as the gaff is all sold out, it is naturally a terrible predicament for James Burdekin, as he may have to refund the money, and thinking of this has James on the verge of a collapse himself.
A raft some quarter mile away let the brown sail down from the crosstree by ropes and slowly worked its way, gaffing and poling off the other rafts between, till it came alongside the one Arren was on.
How it could crack through the door at any minute and drag me out, like a dead fish on a gaff, drop me on the floor like a gutshot squirrel.