A long barbed fishing spear, with a hook for landing large fish.
Yard supporting top of a sail.
Spar which supports the upper side of a fore-and-aft four-sided sail. Also, long-handed hook to bring fish aboard.
A handled hook used to boat a large fish.
A steel or iron hook without a barb, provided with a wooden handle, used to haul in objects that have fallen overboard from a vessel. To hook or engage with a gaff.
Spar that is used to extend the vertical, or upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is not set on a stay.
A long pole with a hook and a blunt spike on one end to assist in mooring or retrieving objects in the water. Gaffe in French.
The spar to which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is connected.
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
a barbed or hooked rod, often used for impaling fish
a large hook used for landing large fish
a large hook without a barb fastened into a short pole
a must when fishing out there
an iron hook at the end of a short pole, used for landing salmon, etc
an unusual rectangular sail
a spar at the top of a sail
a spar used in ships to extend the upper edge of fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays
a wooden spar with a fork at one end
A spar from which a flag is hoisted, jutting from the mizzenmast of a shop or from a staff on land.
A boom or spar that supports the head of a fore-and-aft sail
A hook attached directly to a pole (metal or wooden shaft) or other device. Use of gaffs is permitted only to help land a fish that was lawfully hooked.
A spar to support the head of a gaff sail.
a spar used to support the top of a mainsail or a pole with a hook end used for hauling fish onboard a spar to support and spread the head of a sail of four generally unequal sides. A sail so rigged is gaff-headed.
A spar in a gaff rig (four sided sails) to which the top side of the sailed is attached.
The spar that holds the upper edge of a sail.
A metal pole with a hooked end used to boat a fish. Also a pole or spar that holds the upper portion of a four-sided sail.
The spar extending along the top of a four-sided fore-and-aft mounted sail
A spar extending out from a flagpole.
1 ) The spar used to extend the head of a sail 2) Affectionate term for a long-time charter customer as in "he's kind of an old gaffer but he charters every; year from Newport, so I guess we should send him a Christmas card"
a long, straight, wooden pole with a hook on the end that is used to catch buoys.
A spar on which a sail is extended. (See sail illustration.)
A spar that holds the upper side of a four-sided gaff sail
a free swinging spar attached to the top edge of a sail.
In fishing, a gaff is a pole with a sharp hook on the end that is used to stab a large fish and then lift the fish into the boat. Ideally, the hook is placed under the backbone. Gaffs are used when the weight of the fish exceeds the breaking point of the fishing line or the fishing pole, but cannot of course be used if it is intended to release the fish unharmed after capture.
