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Gaff (g hard)

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Crooked as a gaff. A gaff is an iron hook at the end of a short pole, used for landing salmon, etc. The metal spurs of fighting cocks. In nautical language, a spar to which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is bent. (Dana: Seaman’s Manual, p. 97.) (Irish, gaf; Spanish and Portuguese, gafa.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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