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Gaff Crossword Clue and Answers List
| Rate | Answer | Clue |
| GAFFED | Of Gaff | |
| GAFFING | Of Gaff | |
| GAFFLE | An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks. | |
| VANG | A rope to steady the peak of a gaff. | |
| HEEL | To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting. | |
| THROAT | That end of a gaff which is next the mast. | |
| FORESAIL | The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. | |
| GABLOCK | A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. | |
| SPAR | A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff. | |
| GALIOT | A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail. | |
| RINGTAIL | A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail. | |
| GAFF-TOPSAIL | A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast. | |
| DRIVER | The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. | |
| HORN | The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. | |
| GAFF | To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon. | |
| JAW | The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast. | |
| EARING | A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing. | |
| LACING | 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. | |
| SPANKER | 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. | |
| CATBOAT | A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
| PEAK | To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular. | |
| TRYSAIL | 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. | |
| SPENCER | ...inmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after i... | |
| TOPSAIL | ...rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. ... | |
| SLOOP | 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 ... | |
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