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Same as Gaffle, 1. Wright.

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes.

An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

Mutial accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]

A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer. [Eng.]

ich the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. Totten. Driver ant (Zoöl.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.…

A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

plain color or make. -- Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, sin…

ft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. Wright.

ng, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

To gaff, as mackerel.

An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

with the wall, without dressings or moldings; a disguised door. -- Jib header (Naut.), a gaff-topsail, shaped like a jib; a jib- headed topsail. -- Jib topsail (Naut.), a small jib set above and outside of all the other jibs. -- The cut of one's jib, one's outward appearance. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.…

e passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.